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All this has done a good job of outing the secret gammons though.
The most targeted person in the wprld for terrorists
Maybe, but dont believe anyone is safe all day, everyday.
Ditto cabinet members, Boris etc
You are still getting one side of the story. Could have been a contract carpet cleaner who made the brown baby comment. We will never know who said it or even if it was actually said.
She's an actresses,
Harry seems like a decent guy. Saw an interview with a tv crew he did in Iraq or Afghanistan. Talked about taking out the bad guys to protect the ground forces then got called to an op in his Apache mid sentence.
Maybe MM didnt believe all the things she was told about being a Royal, or thought it wouldn't apply, or she could change it, or it wasn't true.. We will never know.
I dont think its a bad gig, open a hospital wing, meet some random african president, have some nice dinners. Get a chauffeur, house, marry a multi multi millionaire. But it didnt work out so they chose to go it alone and getting some serious wedge for a day on a sofa makes them another mill to add to the 30 mill Harrys already got then fine.
I dontt care what they do, who they do or who they do it with, any more than which footballer is going to PSG,
its a shame coz i think hes ok, having never met him, and reserve judgement on her as Ive never met her either.
Morgan is gone.
Yay ! prick.
I dont think its a bad gig, open a hospital wing, meet some random african president, have some nice dinners. Get a chauffeur, house, marry a multi multi millionaire. But it didnt work out
Is it really possible someone could be as ignorant as this?
The most targeted person in the wprld for terrorists
Maybe, but dont believe anyone is safe all day, everyday.
Ditto cabinet members, Boris etc
You are still getting one side of the story. Could have been a contract carpet cleaner who made the brown baby comment. We will never know who said it or even if it was actually said
And all their security is assured.
It was also Harry who said a royal (not a cleaner) made the comment about brown babies, not Meghan Markle
I dont think its a bad gig, open a hospital wing, meet some random african president, have some nice dinners. Get a chauffeur, house, marry a multi multi millionaire. But it didnt work out so they chose to go it alone and getting some serious wedge for a day on a sofa
I'll stop you right there, it was 2 chairs, but that's the least of your factual inaccuracies.
You seem to be justifying some sort of free for all abuse against them. Royalist/republican or whether you think they have an easy job or not shouldn't make a difference to whether they accept they should be entitled to not be abused and harassed.
I don't overly like the royal family as an institution, but I don't have to feel ill towards them as individuals as a result.
makes them another mill to add to the 30 mill Harrys already got then fine.
They weren't paid as has already been pointed out.
I dontt care what they do
Yet....... you clearly do
I have a lot of sympathy for Harry and Meghan over the way the Press treated them. Selling their story on Oprah has rather cheapened the whole thing
Selling their story on Oprah
For the nth time via many people, they haven't been paid.
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Morgan is gone.Yay ! prick.
Something we can all agree on?👍
Though he'll find a home on UK News or whatever that new right wing news network is unfortunately.
The most targeted person in the wprld for terrorists
Maybe, but dont believe anyone is safe all day, everyday.
Ditto cabinet members, Boris etc
Bloody wish terrorists would kidnap Boris and about eighty percent of his cabinet. We could then ignore all the ransom demands.
I've very little interest in this either, but I do notice that if someone doesn't like Meghan, they are almost always the sort of person I wouldn't like too.
Saves time.
For the nth time via many people, they haven’t been paid.
Maybe not, but they will be able to make money on the back of it if they choose to do so.
Maybe not, but they will be able to make money on the back of it if they choose to do so.
Hold judgment till then,erm, then?
Hold judgment till then,erm, then?
Also maybe withold judgement until you hear both sides of the story.
How else are they supposed to get their side of the story over without an interview like this?
Go to the tabloids... oh wait
Issue statements that definitely absolutely won't be intentionally misconstrued.... Hang on
Speak to 'the firm' about a PR campaign to highlight the charity works they've been doing and in no way be compared to Diana... Nearly there
I honestly couldn't give two f's about the royals, what I do give a serious f about is racism, hypocrisy, ignorance (especially willful ignorance) and the distinct lack of nuance and empathy floating around at the moment.
Absolutely spot on SpawnofYorkshire
No sympathy for them at all. They should have stood up and told the rest of the royals to eff off and done so loudly, publicly and earlier.
sorry they are two parasites complaining tough. People actually have it hard in this world not these overerprivileged spolit idiots
That Irish times article is brilliant
Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.
Clown Catholic
Bye 🙂
With your profession and comments on mental health in the past I would have expected a more educated contribution TBH.
Why should I have sympathy for these overpriveledged spoilt idiots?
Yes her pain is real but its tiny compared to what many folk go thru. Try living with serious mental health issues when you are unemployed and have no money? Try living the life of a poor black person in the UK or the US.
try living a life of disability on the pittance the UK state provides.
My sympathy got all used up on people who deserve it.
Just because they have more money than some doesn't excuse racism and mental abuse / negligence TJ.
Why should I have sympathy for these overpriveledged spoilt idiots?
1 - they're not asking you for sympathy
2 - because they're still human beings
I dont think its a bad gig, open a hospital wing, meet some random african president, have some nice dinners. Get a chauffeur, house, marry a multi multi millionaire. But it didnt work out
I totally hear that in the voice of Nessa from Gavin And Stacey.
No it does not and I did not say it did. The point still stands - they are massively overpriveledged and have no sympathy from me as that has gone to people who are in much worse situations. Its only from their position of massive previledge they thein they are hard done to.
Now lets compare them to the Windrush generation? wrongly deported to a country they never knew and dying in penury - now thats racism affecting someones life. Thats people with mentqal health difficulties
they are parasites and I simply have no effs left to give them
edit - and they are asking for sympathy - thats what the interview was about - creating a narrative of how hard done by they are. Its bollox
Isn't one of the underlining factors of mental health issues that they're basically 'none discriminatory'? I'm no expert (other than most of my adult life suffering from anything from mild anxiety to fairly severe depression) but anxiety/depression don't really care how rich/privileged you are......having a **** tonne of money doesn't help you not feel depressed/anxious.
TJ these posts seem fairly uncharacteristic of you?!
I'm as anti monarchy/anti royalist as you can get. I do however have some sympathy and empathy towards them.
This situation doesn't even need a debate....the reason that they were hounded and demonized in the press is because she's a bit too brown for the liking of your average boomer royalist.
Surprised at your posts TJ. I've got a lot of respect for you, but feel you've been very harsh here
they are demanding and getting special treatment because of their hugely privileged lives and while what happened to them is not right by any manner of means its is incomparably tiny to the issues facing millions of people in this country.
I have zero effs to give to people like them. There are millions of people much more deserving.
I think the fawning over them from many on here is quite sickening in its servility
Look - its just an opinion and that is mine.
Why should I have sympathy for these overpriveledged spoilt idiots?
Just standard human decency? I would agree that they have vastly more options than many people but being rich/privileged doesn't automatically equal happiness.
Whataboutery isn't really helpful.
Why? I do not know them. they have a lives of huge privilege and I have spent far too much time dealing with people in much worse situations for me to give a stuff about them.
I ask you - why do you feel anything for these people who you do not know and who inhabit circles of extreme wealth and privilege?
Ever thought you have been taken for a ride? Who killed bambi?
its is incomparably tiny to the issues facing millions of people in this country.
So are many peoples issues in comparison, but it doesn't stop the personal hurt and pain anyone is feeling when affected, nor does it deny anyone the right to compassion and help. Mental health and racism is not limited to nor lessened by class, finance, society or culture, race or gender.
Finally someone putting this into context, thank you TJ, completely agree with your sentiment.
Meh. Quite like them and the bit about Meghan having her passport removed from her so she couldn’t leave made the whole interview really bleak - even if they are privileged.
Would go into battle with Harry just for getting rid of Piers Morgan.
Anyway, here in the Netherlands everyone thinks the British are really ****ed up in the head now after watching that interview - this shit apparently seems normal to uk families.
I ask you – why do you feel anything for these people who you do not know and who inhabit circles of extreme wealth and privilege?
Ever thought you have been taken for a ride? Who killed bambi?
I don't especially, but you of all people TJ should see that there is a concerted effort by 'the establishment' in this country to discredit them which is pretty creepy. In the last few days stories have come out that she was supposedly being investigated for bullying staff, irregularities at a charity they set up, and for wearing earrings that might have come from the leader of Saudi (who our government sell billions of pounds of weapons to, but that's fine apparently).
Frankly anyone who does anything to bring down the popularity of the ludicrous feudal system we still have in this country is ok with me.
Good retort there grum.
I have spent far too much time dealing with people in much worse situations for me to give a stuff about them.
Do you tell the ones who are struggling with less severe issues to stop whingeing because other people go through worse?
Anyway, here in the Netherlands everyone thinks the British are really **** up in the head now after watching that interview – this shit apparently seems normal to uk families.
It's actually quite scary to see how many people in the UK just go along with what their lizard overlords tell them to think.
I quite agree Kryton - I am sure it hurts. I still do now see why I should care one jot? why its worth an hour on Oprah and why its worth a thread on here with some real sycophancy going on
their enormous wealth and privilege will shelter them from a lot of the ill effects. A racist morther inlaw will not lead to them sleeping on the streets. they have not been arrested and deported wrongly. they have not had unfair benefit sanctions leaving them to starve.
its bread and circuses. Its who killed bambi.
True Grum - and i still do not care one jot about them.
Yes, they do have massive wealth, but some context is required. I find it hard to understand how people can’t have some compassion for a guy who lost his mother at a young age, in terrible circumstances, whilst being watched by the world. Ignoring the debate about how much the actions of the palace may have led to his mother’s death, he then grows up, gets married and then sees his wife being hung out to dry by the very people who should be looking out for him and his family. This is his chance to put the record straight, bypassing the media who make his life so difficult. He was born into the royal family, he didn’t choose that life. I’m not a royalist at all, I just have compassion for the guy (and his new family)
I don’t think it’s bread and circuses, from outside the uk that interview seems like a damning insight into the British national psyche
True Grum – and i still do not care one jot about them.
Yes as you've said repeatedly, you care so little you've had to make several posts in this thread just to reiterate how little you care.
I have never been impressed by anything any royal has ever done. Until Harry and Meghan decided to walk away, that is.
Good for them, taking control of their lives. Why put up with the crap if you can take another option?
It’s not context. They aren’t complaining they are skint as don’t have money to fly business class, in the same context of a family who are skint and can’t afford Netflix.
They are highlighting racism, for the most part.
Quoted in the Mirror:
A senior royal source said....
"Quite frankly there are far more important things going in the world rather than the circus going on round a television interview."
Maybe the first time a senior royal source agrees with TJ?
Also maybe withold judgement until you hear both sides of the story.
Is there another side to the story regarding being paid for the interview?
Hey, fantastic news from this anyway. Scumbag Piers has been sacked from ITV 😀
With remembering that there are various "sides" to take on this. Reminding myself too.
Anti Royal.
Anti Royal but pro Meg/Harry.
Pro Royal.
Pro Royal but anti Meg/ Harry.
Pro Meg/ Harry but pointing out they have a lot of wealth to overcome adversity such as racism/ mental health unlike most others.
Ambivalence to Meg/ Harry but uncomfortable with the targeted media attention from right wing press.
Total "couldn't give a damn about any of them".
I'm sure I've missed tonnes of perspectives too.
If STW has taught me anything it's two lessons.
1 Almost nothing in life is binary and certainly judging a forum member based on their opinion on a single topic is almost certainly doing then an injustice.
2 For your own sanity, when it's a good time to "do a Piers" and flounce.😁 Not a single opinion will be changed in this thread and there really are bigger concerns these days.
(By the very definition of flouncing/ Piersing I reserve the right to un-flounce in a day or so.😁)
@tjagain how wealthy does someone have to be before it's okay to be racist towards them?
How wealthy do you have to be before you no longer have a right to call out racism?
How wealthy do you have to be before you no longer have mental health issues taken seriously?
You do realise that's pretty much your argument?
By all means dislike them for whatever personal slight they have caused you but don't confuse empathy for sycophancy.
Squirrelking
that is not my arguement at all as you could tell if you thought rather than a knee jeck attack.
Its simply I do not care about these people I do not know. they have a life of enormous wealth and privilege. Yes they have been ion the receiving end of some unpleasant behaviour they claim and the press have been pretty nasty
But to have people on here making all that fuss about it all? to get on Oprah? attitudes on here are decidedly sycophantic in that if this was joe Bloggs no one would care? Look at windrush and how the poor chap who was wrongly deported and died in penury? did he get on Oprah?
No - I reserve my sympathy for those who I know and who are in need. NOt for these parasites who while enduring nasty behaviour still have no idea what life really is like for the citizens of this country and who still live a life of enormous wealth and privelge
If a couple with a net worth of $50 million need to go on TV and whine about how bad their life was to promote whatever shit show of a life they desire then i suggest that just maybe they need to consider what dignity means and at a time in history when so many poor people are dying indicates to me what their priorities are (chickens apparently)
Its plainly evident that Megan was disappointed by Royal lifestyle and the restrictions it brought, its plainly evident that Harry has tried to fix that and expects it all to be underwritten by an extension of the public purse.
Cromwell had it all sorted (for a while) fundamentally they are all to a degree an expensive liability.
... then i suggest that just maybe they need to consider what dignity means....
I think that's pretty much their argument - I don't see them "whinging" about money or asking for sympathy, what I see are two people relentlessly hounded by a toxic and openly aggressive press and given zero support (and in some cases racism and fairly open hostility) from the family and very network that's literally there to help them, who decided to step away from their roles to minimise the heat and found it got turned up to 11. Compare and contrast with sickly-sweet portrayal of Kate - that's not her fault, but for an example the press spoke lovingly of her healthy avocado morning sickness cure and tear the arse out of Meghan for destroying the environment for eating avocados. No-one was telling their side, so they went "f***it, we'll do it ourselves".
People can be anti-monarchy and that's fine, people can bitch about the privileged and whilst I think that's not unfounded, it still ignores them as human beings.
Jesus, what a way to start the morning. 🙁
Lordy tjagain you do manage to tie yourself in knots sometimes. On the sauce last night?
Because it really is the most important thing in the world at the moment, isn’t it?
Why You Shouldn't Be Distracted By The Royal Circus | Prof John Ashton:
its is incomparably tiny to the issues facing millions of people in this country.
I can't imagine your reaction to someone concerned about what tyres to use!!
If a couple with a net worth of $50 million need to go on TV and whine about how bad their life was to promote whatever shit show of a life they desire then i suggest that just maybe they need to consider what dignity means and at a time in history when so many poor people are dying indicates to me what their priorities are (chickens apparently)
Its plainly evident that Megan was disappointed by Royal lifestyle and the restrictions it brought, its plainly evident that Harry has tried to fix that and expects it all to be underwritten by an extension of the public purse.
Your key word is your first; “If”. Well, they didn’t do anything that followed which basically means you wasted your time and display of ignorance typing that out.
Its simply I do not care about these people I do not know.
Why have you never mentioned this before?
Because it really is the most important thing in the world at the moment, isn’t it?
If only it was possible to pay attention to more than one thing. Oh wait....
at a time in history when so many poor people are dying
See above.
Lordy tjagain you do manage to tie yourself in knots sometimes
His view seems pretty clear to me, you just maybe don't agree, that's life.
Don't get me wrong the focus on this in the news is ridiculously OTT and it is a distraction from more important issues but that's an issue with our terrible press, which is a different thread. They were already ignoring coronavirus deaths and printing dreadful pro government propaganda before any of this stuff blew up.
with our terrible press
...which Harry made quite clear is complicit in the promotion and relative success of the Royal family.
So I watched the 2nd half - just became clearer that both of them unfortunately have suffered mental health issues in the recent past, and Harry has never come to terms with what happened with his Mum/Dad. The family have fallen out, family cuts ties including money. Doesn't sound dissimilar to lots of families. Two sides to every story.
The press bit does appear to be ott though. But they didnt need to bring the family in to that.
Still think the thread titled stands.
Bang on point article in the Guardian, Meg and Harry doing what armed revolution failed to fully finish off. It confirms the way the interview was seen in the Netherlands.
Hewitt, who contrasted the silence of the Queen on the Windrush scandal with how she had “spoken out” against Scottish independence.
“There are many among us who consider this sentiment to be a reflection of the broader British society and the Brexit discussions, which reveal a British preoccupation with their ‘specialness’ does not help.”
After the broadcast, the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, cited it as another reason for the country to sever its constitutional ties to the British monarchy.
The Aussies think we're racist 😀
Owned.
Just when you think the UK couldn't fall any further down the international popularity rank, queeny goes and ****s it up as well.
2021-22 is going to make for epic gammon baiting.
with our terrible press
…which Harry made quite clear is complicit in the promotion and relative success of the Royal family.
Only relatively successful? Imagine if they were really successful. 😀
After two days of not very much thought, I've decided that I don't need to join Team Royal or Team Megan because I really don't much care for either party.
The Royal Family is another one of those things you couldn't invent now, it's only our sad love of the past and past glories that mean we keep them. Am I surprised that there are unpleasant members of the extended Royal Family? Hell no, can you imagine the arrogance from being born with all that privilege and being told it's your Birth right because you've a special person right down to your DNA. Some of them are only a generation behind Nazi Sympathisers and SS Officers and we're supposed to wonder if one of them dared to questioned the skin tone of their baby, if that was the worst of it I'm amazed.
As for Harry and Megan, sounds they had a shit time of things, the rough side of 'normal' royal life is pretty rough, couple that will being non-white amongst an extended family of people who believe their 'blood' is special and all the Nazism can't have been easy. I don't doubt she became depressed, I know depression all too well and support from your friends and family is worth it's weight in gold. The press were savage in their unveiled hatred of her, was it her Ethnicity, her Nationality, her Job, I think it was all those things, she wasn't the blushing, English Rose like Harry's Mum and SIL and that wouldn't do. Still, being as about 5 people still read newspapers these days, they're easy to avoid. I haven't read a newspaper in a decade.
So they decided to leave, good for them, made a bit more of a fuss about that than was strictly needed though, but I'm sure raising awareness of the dangers of marrying into the Royal Family will no doubt benefit millions of youngsters out there, and the Royals deserve it. They took their millions of pounds (her Earned, his Inherited) and pissed off abroad, it's a shame they took your security detail off you, it must be hard to travel as a muggle when you're used to Johnny English and James Bond watching your every move. Anyway, welcomed with open arms in the secure gated community of their $10m LA home. Congratulations, you've made it, you've retired to a live of privilege and wealth in your 30s. All you've got to do now, it keep your head down for a few years and even The Mail and Hello will stop caring so much about you.
Turns out that wasn't the plan though was it? Vanity, or greed, who knows, but there's an opportunity to build a hell of a brand, forget Stacy Soloman and Joe Swash, they're going after Jay-Z and Beyoncé! A PR Stunt you couldn't buy with money, an exclusive 2 hour interview with the Grandmother of them all Oprah with pre-arranged questions for maximum impact, and best of all, because the Royals have to maintain the swindle of 'Majesty' they know it'll be entirely one-sided. The 'Royal Household' response is way shorter than this rambling diatribe.
There are no winners or losers in this, just two parties of incredibly privileged people sticking the knife into each other the best way they know how.
My thoughts exactly 🙂
The side by side comparisons of her treatment and Kate Middleton’s treatment by the press make for disturbing reading, and it’s obscenely naive – or incredibly disingenuous – to pretend there isn’t a racial element to that. There are also lashings, of course, of prejudice against Americans and divorcees in the whole “she’s not good enough for *our* royal family” narrative, but race is a large part of it.
Saying the tabloid press is racist is a bit like saying a serial killer is racist because all their victims are of the same race. (In fact if you look at press victims, there is a pretty good mix there, including many not wealthy enough to defend themselves.)
Commercially, the decision to cast nee Markle as a villain was a good one, it has generated a well of content that will continue to make money for the press (if you are into following the $$$$, those are the ones to follow). It was a good decision because the readership would not have put up with nee Markle as a fairytale princess (the other way of inventing a story out of it). The reasons for that are complex but I think more to do with the fact that nee Markle is an independent and independently wealth woman who would take a public stance on issues likely to be contrary to what the readership* wanted. Unlike nee Middleton who may hold the same views but keeps her trap shut.
* To an extent they are led by editorial decisions, but it is a two-way street, the readership can only be led so far.
I agree with what @Pondo said up there:
I don’t see them “whinging” about money or asking for sympathy, what I see are two people relentlessly hounded by a toxic and openly aggressive press and given zero support (and in some cases racism and fairly open hostility) from the family and very network that’s literally there to help them, who decided to step away from their roles to minimise the heat and found it got turned up to 11.
I'd describe myself as fairly ambivalent about the royal family, but after seeing both Harry and Meghan become targets for the gutter press, especially after what happened to his mother, and now becoming a father himself, meant that I understood their decision to "resign" from the Royal family and do their own thing. "Good-on-them" I thought.
As for going on Oprah...... hmmmmmmm. Will this make things "better" or "worse" for them? More publicity/controversy is good if you are looking to launch a new celebrity brand, but bad if what you're looking for is for the press to leave you alone. So it's either genius or monumentally stupid, depending on their objective. If it's "genius" then it feels pretty mercenary given some of the subject matter.
I did want to ask STW about the "how dark will the baby be?" controversy - I haven't watched the interview, just read a couple of articles about it: Was any kind of context for that comment given? Of course, it shouldn't matter in the slightest - but I would imagine that there was a whole group of people tasked with understanding and managing how the British press dealt with both Meghan and now Archie's ethnicity, for whom this would be a somewhat valid question.
*ducks below parapet*
but I would imagine that there was a whole group of people tasked with understanding and managing how the British press dealt with both Meghan and now Archie’s ethnicity
The very subtle context was that Megan and the baby’s status for Royal protection was to be diminished outside of precedence for some “unknown” reason. It was a bit implied tbh.
Either way, it shouldn’t matter, and shouldn’t have needed to be “dealt with”.
Either way, it shouldn’t matter, and shouldn’t have needed to be “dealt with”.
Agreed. But in the real world, unfortunately it’s necessary
There are no winners or losers in this, just two parties of incredibly privileged people sticking the knife into each other the best way they know how.
The 12 year old Harry likes his revenge served ice-cold.
But in the real world, unfortunately it’s necessary
No it isn't. No one has ever ask me how brown my kids are/might be, ever. And if you're alluding to the fact its "necessary" within the Royal context, that is then a circular question which points back to the question as to why its being raised in and in what context.
And if you’re alluding to the fact its “necessary” within the Royal context, that is then a circular question which points back to the question as to why its being raised in and in what context.
Yes..... that was my question. I think the answer is that we don’t know the context.
No it isn’t. No one has ever ask me how brown my kids are/might be, ever
Do you Have a press department? Are you hounded by the tabloids?
I think we are talking with mixed context Batfink.
You meant it was necessary because of the tabloid intrusion as "real world" for them, not as an everyday occurrence in the real world for all of us?
You meant it was necessary because of the tabloid intrusion as “real world” for them, not as an everyday occurrence in the real world for all of us?
Yes, apologies for not being clear. The reality is that having the first (to my knowledge?) mixed race members of the royal family is significant, because of how they will be viewed by the public (a percentage of which is either overtly or unconsciously racist), and treated by the tabloid press who play to this racism to sell papers/clicks
As part of the many discussions had about how to manage this - it wouldn’t surprise me if this question had been asked.
However, I suspect it was Charles.
No one has ever ask me how brown my kids are/might be, ever.
No but I bet you will have got shit like this if you actually have mixed race kids:
"Oh they don't look like you"
"Oh they have very Asiany eyes"
Etc
Or when it comes to the topic of your wife
"Oh, so you have an Asian fetish then"
No one has ever ask me how brown my kids are/might be, ever
Here in Glasgow its a case of, are they Green or Blue 😕 😆
@oakleymuppet - I do have mixed race kids. an actually the only comment I've heard is "look at his eyes!" in the perspective my son has extremely light brown eyes.
Oh, so you have an
AsianBlack fetish then.
Yep, I get (well, when we call all go out to the pub) this out with my mates (my wife is of course Black), its become a private joke, to which my comment is that its always inappropriate and stop typecasting me or "**** off" after a few pints.
“Oh, so you have an Asian fetish then”
Really? I have lived a safe and sheltered life but I would be prepared to ditch/ghost anyone talking like that about my family.
What I find fascinating about the interview was not the interview itself but the reaction. Many people have pointed out they didn't get paid without asking why they did it. I can't imagine it was good therapy do there must be some other reason. Revenge, as a warning to anyone else thinking of marrying into the firm? Actors don't get paid for going on talk shows but it increases their brand, sells more tickets to their latest film etc.
I actually had a great deal of sympathy for the issues about mental health. The rest was a mix. Mentioning Archie wouldn't be a prince or get protection was a red herring. They would have known he wouldn't, until the Queen and Phil pop their clogs that's the protocol. Andys and Edwards kids don't either. Nose out of joint because Wills kids are princes and princesses and Meghan isn't a princess, duchess,Marquis etc? The racism thing was her lived experience but doesn't make it true. A royal saying that they are concerned that there may be a lot of stick coming their way if Archie is obviously mixed race vs we are concerned how it will look if Archie is mixed race are 2 very different things that could easily be experienced the same way.
Plus she is an actress trying to rebuild her career.
It's interesting that a lot of people seem to take what was said at face value because it was said, but because the firm haven't given media interviews they are automatically judged to have behaved as alleged.