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Negative Reactions to #Megxit Are the Exact Reason They’re Leaving

THANK YOU! Exactly. Lol

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Negative Reactions to #Megxit Are the Exact Reason They’re Leaving

This is a brilliant article and sums up how I personally think it's all played out. Meghan said a few months ago "I never thought it would be easy, but I thought it would be fair." It definitely has not been fair. Honestly, I don't blame them one bit, and I don't know anyone who does.

 

[Oregonmama]

I tried to post before the thread was closed, but I discovered that there was a really nice interview for Men’s Health with Meghan while she was grilling. A female reporter talked to her about food and Suits. In that context, the accompanying video you’re referring to came across as a campy spoof...something they did as a joke and not with being racy as the focus.
JMO MOO

Who would want to be in a spoof of something like that. Not classy at all. Exposure and money was the outcome. JMO

 

[Oregonmama]

Tje

This is a brilliant article and sums up how I personally think it's all played out. Meghan said a few months ago "I never thought it would be easy, but I thought it would be fair." It definitely has not been fair. Honestly, I don't blame them one bit, and I don't know anyone who does.

Stiff upper lip comment didnt help her one bit...jmo

 

[oviedo]

I wonder if some of this change is due to Harry turning 36 this year and Diana dying at 36??just something I’m thinking about regarding this timing
JMO

 

[momrids6]

Naw. I wore my son until he was 3 She might want to try wearing him on her back That might be better for dog walking anyway

Looks awkward in the pics, imo. We had one with the metal frame like a hiker's backpack that the boys were in til about 3 (went on the back, not front)

 

[firebird]

Who would want to be in a spoof of something like that. Not classy at all. Exposure and money was the outcome. JMO

It 100% was not a spoof. Men's Health mag is not about spoofs. It's about "hot chicks." The "interview" billed her as the "ultimate guys girl." But regardless, not very regal.

Eta: It's like that joke about reading playboy for the articles

 

[Tony1902]

Tje

Stiff upper lip comment didnt help her one bit...jmo

JMO, MOO, quantum spaghetti on the wall—also part African American & Spanish—we don’t do “stiff upper lip” that well, even if someone is kind enough to show us the path towards righteousness and being sanctified. We.. well we tend to veer towards our own path, as we perceive it.

 

[firebird]

Looks awkward in the pics, imo. We had one with the metal frame like a hiker's backpack that the boys were in til about 3 (went on the back, not front)

If he was front facing you could see his face. I'm guessing they don't want that. I have my own thoughts on the reasons.

 

[Gardenista]

PH should ask Serena for lessons on how to nicely deflect reporters questions

Serena Williams has 'absolutely no comments' on Megxit | Daily Mail Online

 

[Bravo]

All the young Mom's I know carry their babes facing inward at that age.

 

[squareandrabbet]

I thought I read that he had to be styled Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex like Diana, Princess of Wales but everyone ended up ignoring that and still called her Princess Diana so I thought the protocol would prohibit her from being called Duchess Meghan? I’m sure it will get sorted out
JMO

One would never refer to a Duchess as "Duchess FirstName" (source: lots of Regency-era romances). Dukes and Duchesses are "His/her grace", as in "Her Grace, the Duchess of [insert name of duchy]". Members of the nobility use the highest title they are entitled to use. It takes a long time to learn what title goes with whom, as well as what form of address; the queen probably took months being tutored in this discipline.

Thankfully, this topic has been discussed around the time of the RW.

Unthankfully, it's super complicated, and I'm sure hasn't gotten any better post-Megxit:

Meghan Markle's Full Royal Title - Why She Isn't 'Princess Meghan'

According to the customs of British peerage, a woman takes the title of her husband, meaning Meghan would become HRH Princess Henry of Wales, but she's not a British "blood" princess, so calling her Princess Meghan would be incorrect.

Kensington Palace announced the news the morning of the royal wedding.

"The Queen has today been pleased to confer a Dukedom on Prince Henry of Wales. His titles will be Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel," reads a statement.

"Prince Harry thus becomes His Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex, and Ms. Meghan Markle on marriage will become Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex."

Before the wedding, the Duke of Sussex was the frontrunner for titles Harry could receive on his wedding day.

Royal Central, a website reporting on all things monarchical, predicted he would be named the Duke of Sussex upon his marriage, a title that has been available for over a century. (The last Duke of Sussex was Prince Augustus Frederick, the sixth son of King George III, and an uncle of Queen Victoria's.)

"Most likely, he will be created a Duke. Sussex is available so [Markle] would be HRH the Duchess of Sussex," royal historian Marlene Koenig said. "Her rank would be a princess by marriage of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and Northern Ireland."

Other available options included Clarence, Connaught, Windsor, Albany, and Cumberland.

 

[Gardenista]

Looks awkward in the pics, imo. We had one with the metal frame like a hiker's backpack that the boys were in til about 3 (went on the back, not front)

All the car-seat rule enforcer type moms are taking her to task on how she has it fitted on her body.

 

[Lilibet]

Who would want to be in a spoof of something like that. Not classy at all. Exposure and money was the outcome. JMO

LOL Well, lest we forget, Kate’s ahem “dress” definitely got her “exposure,” money AND a prince LOL.

As the story goes, William reportedly paid $275 to score a front row seat at the Don't Walk show on March 27, 2002. Middleton was tapped to model the dress by designer Charlotte Todd. At she made her way down the catwalk in St. Andrews Bay Hotel, William turned to his friend Fergus Boyd and whispered, 'Wow, Fergus, Kate's hot!'"

The Dress Kate Middleton Wore That Wooed Prince William

 

[Oregonmama]

In one year PH will be back with Archie where he belongs..jmo

 

[gregjrichards]

It 100% was not a spoof. Men's Health mag is not about spoofs. It's about "hot chicks." The "interview" billed her as the "ultimate guys girl." But regardless, not very regal.

Eta: It's like that joke about reading playboy for the articles

I can’t be critical of Meghan doing that video it’s not as if it was explicit content that she did. And at the time she did it she probably never could have imagined she would be a Duchess one day.

 

[Oregonmama]

LOL Well, lest we forget, Kate’s ahem “dress” definitely got her “exposure,” money AND a prince LOL.

As the story goes, William reportedly paid $275 to score a front row seat at the Don't Walk show on March 27, 2002. Middleton was tapped to model the dress by designer Charlotte Todd. At she made her way down the catwalk in St. Andrews Bay Hotel, William turned to his friend Fergus Boyd and whispered, 'Wow, Fergus, Kate's hot!'"

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The Dress Kate Middleton Wore That Wooed Prince William

That was in college and she didnt get paid for it.

 

[Amonet]

Negative Reactions to #Megxit Are the Exact Reason They’re Leaving

The part I find most interesting, and not just 'opinion' is the quote in there of a statement Harry put out in 2016:

"“But the past week has seen a line crossed,” the statement read. “His girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment. Some of this has been very public—the smear on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments. Some of it has been hidden from the public—the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life.”"

It clearly points to online trolls and web comments, not the stories themselves as being where Harry saw the certain comments, not blatantly in media articles, and not everyone in the country.

It says that we, the public, haven't even seen the worst of the articles as they have had lawyers helping to stop some stories before they even went to press.

And reporters and photographers trying to illegally gain access to Meghan's home?

Sometimes the media/papparazzi do go overboard...we've seen it happen. Yes, they've climbed trees to get photos into private rooms or shots of someone sunbathing topless when they were surrounded by a ten-foot fence that would put off anyone but the most desperate papparazzi. Is that how they always go about things? No, of course not. But it does sometimes happen. And even happening once should be too much. I don't care if it's a celeb, a royal, or a crime victim...sometimes they can go too far for a picture or a story. And that's not just my opinion, that's what Harry was saying, with examples, in that statement.

And aside from the media/papps, sometimes individuals go too far. Remember when that man broke into Buckingham Palace and went into the Queen's bedroom? Or the kidnap attempt on Princess Anne? Or the time when Prince Charles was on stage and was shot at by someone in the audience? There's been at least one assassination attempt on the Queen.

Back when Harry was in the army, the government and Royal Family didn't really want him to go on active duty for fear of terrorist attempts to kidnap or kill him.

 

[Bravo]

Breaks my heart to read anybody would rather Harry return to London with Archie. He knows the pain of an absent Mother. SMDH

 

[Lilibet]

I can’t be critical of Meghan doing that video it’s not as if it was explicit content that she did. And at the time she did it she probably never could have imagined she would be a Duchess one day.

‘Thank you @gregjrichards. I knew you’d understand.