Meghan Markles Dad

janipat this side of 'the pond' we don't venerate 'slebs' the way people your side of the pond seem to.
As previously stated. This sort of thing is to be expected if Harry exercised such poor judgement as to marry a divorced actress. The Prince and the showgirl?!

Janipat, ‘leaving you speechless’. ?

janipat, some folks seem to enjoy letting their vitriolic unpleasant side out to play, with MM seen for some reason as fair game.

Iam64. ‘Vitriolic unpleasant side * ? Thank you , and ‘snap’

I’m NOT a Daily Mail reader, but this cartoon is in today’s DM - on my table in the coffee shop

Love it Lisagran ... actually laughed out loud!

Naughty ?

It wasn't the cartoon that made me chuckle but Lisagran's insistence she is NOT a DM reader.

Ha ha merlotgran - I love a free read of any newspaper - mind you, the DM always increases my blood pressure! Going swimming later and they often have the Guardian there - in the lounge about area - so I’ll be balanced by the end of the day

Yes, the Guardian is always available at the gym, because so few people read it.

Strange how Mr Markle has been called trailer trash, accused of being drunk in a tv interview, accused of being after his daughters money is disregarded but critcism of Megan Markle is vitriolic

Anniebach thats a risk anyone takes if they push themselves into the public eye as he has done.

Yes Jane10, critcise him for doing so , but the hypocrisy here of calling those who critcised Megan vitriolic but nothing about saying those things about the father, why not say ‘ I disagree’ not ‘you are vitriolic’ . Why some have the need for personal attacks is such a pity

Well, I reckon we don’t know the whole story and never will it is not our business. I would just say if I wSc in Megan’s position I would have done the same.

Also I think he just wants some of the limelight that goes with being her dad.

He is American, there they are calling her .princess Megan , perhaps he did want to speak with pride about her, the Americans do go for the royals.

Anyway it isn’t going to happen , I feel rather sorry for him, doubt he had the foggiest that here we don’t wash dirty linen in public .

And certainly we don't invite the Queen to join in and referee!!!

We don’t Sparkle. But he is an American ?

Annie, I seem to have upset/irritated you for which, I'm sorry. My snipey comment wasn't directed at you personally, which you seem to feel it was. It was a general comment. I do find it difficult when older women seem to take against a younger woman for being themselves.
We don't know enough about the relationships really to pass Judgement. I still feel that simply heaping blame on MM for the difficulties in her relationship with the father is a bit one sided. It smacks a bit of the kind of negative comments that were directed at Dianna, a very different woman than MM but one who the press loved in similar ways. They also loved to turn on her, in a similar manner to the way MM is now being criticised.

Hurt and disappointed Iam64, I am not vitriolic and it was directed at me , I criticised Megan, I can’t recall you making personal attacks on posters but you did. I agree we don’t know enough about their relationship but ‘trailer trash, drunk, after her money ‘, you had no problem with these.Yet you said of those who critcised Megan ‘ letting their vitriolic unpleasant side out to play ‘ . You opinion .

Ok Annie, you've referred to the "trailer trash" comment 3 times now and, up until now I've ignored it. It was me that made that post and I posted it directly from a news website in the USA, (I'm not an American and so the term isn't one that I'm overly familiar with). The article made it crystal clear that they found Thomas Markle; his daughter Samantha and Thomas Markle Jnr's behaviour to be a national embarrassment because they hold our Royal Family in high esteem and are delighted that a US national has joined the family. The term "trailer trash" has been used liberally throughout US press reportage about the estrangement; especially in view of Thomas Jnrs fairly recent involvement in domestic violence, drunkenness and putting a gun to his girlfriend's head. The American newspapers don't seem to be any more impressed with the Markle's behaviour than most of the posters on this thread.

Early on in this thread, I said that I don't have strong feelings one way or the other for any members of the Royal Family but, due to personal reasons, I do have strong feelings about family estrangement. And on this occasion, I think it's justified. And yes, in view of what I've read in US press, I do think her family have behaved like "trailer trash".

I've posted a Collins dictionary definition of 'vitriol' on the other MM thread.

I stand by my use of that as a description of many comments about MM and here. I also stand by the fact, my comments weren't only directed at Anniebach but at the many other posters who made extremely negative, cruel comments about a young woman expecting her first baby.

Some of the comments referring to MM as "an actress" do smack of snobbery to me. Reminds of Nell Gywnn, the woman who shared the life of Charles 11 and was generally viewed as no better than she ought to be. Seems to me that MM is a totally different kind of actor but there we go.

I've said I was snobbish with regard to MM and that she was an actress. Both are true.

But Chewbacca you are quoting from the American press, they also call Megan an American Princess .

I read the trailer trash post and thought it unkind, speaking of it after I had forgotten who said so thank you for reminding me, I still think it was harsh, the man has won two Emmys, hardly trailer trash, he was employed .

I wish he would accept there will not be any contact with his daughter but it must be hard when only in 2015 she wrote to him addressing him as Darling Daddy

I did look up trailer trash, it is used to describe poor white people living in a trailer or mobile home and is used to denergrate white people living in those circumstances, so yes i did find it offensive, I now know you were quoting the press, i am glad because you are not a poster to denegrate poor people.

But does it matter that she's an actress Iam64? We're in the 21st century; surely we're past all that ridiculous snobbery now! All that matters is that someone, in this case Harry, has chosen someone to share his life with. Whether that sits well with the Markle family, some members of society or posters on this forum, it really doesn't matter one jot! We don't have to live with her. And for those of us who are still gnawing their knuckles in anguish that they don't like MM, or any other member of the RF and their choices of partner..... tough! It ain't your circus!