Plevey08
I dislike the way most people are so vitriolic towards Meghan Markle... remember Princess Diana was labelled a loose cannon. If you don't meet and conform to the Firm's dictate then it is impossible to fit in. They've managed to mould Princess Catherine to conform, she was much more malleable. However I still don't think, despite the big smile, that she is particularly happy or well. Meghan was totally out of her depth and naive when she arrived here, who wouldn't be? Her father was disloyal to her. Royal life is clearly an extremely difficult beast to fit in , master and still feel that you have autonomy. Without autonomy what are we? I can imagine that she sees Harry as being unhappy with the estrangement and she may be trying to support him. It is extremely difficult to be brought up as a royal in this country, in the current era. Some Scandinavian royals are much more relateable to the real world. They cycle around their cities, some work and their people think they are more real. It is mostly the appalling press that stir up all the animosity. Harry and Meghan haven't always made the right choices eg Oprah interview. But the book wasn't as incriminating as it could have been. They think differently now they are outsiders and why shouldn't they. The royal family isn't real to me. The extreme amount of money they make from their Duchy's, properties and land not to mention how much the tax payers cough up. They are a dysfunctional family, many are. But they still think they are entitled and expect their children to play the part they are alloted. But they are not running the old Court of centuries past. So no longer are the appalling behaviour of royals like Andrew deemed acceptable.He is still being protected by the firm and they most definitely knew about his past appalling behaviour all along. But now we have journalists that expose them.
I think this is a pretty good summing up.
Let’s not forget, rightly or wrongly, William and Harry, pre marriage, were the world’s most eligible bachelors.
The media, as they have with many other people, did their best to destroy these brothers. (Not necessarily deliberately)
They hounded their mother to the point that she herself approached them several times and I remember one particularly angry confrontation whilst on a ski-ing holiday with the boys!
The late Queen appears to be the only one in recent times amongst the Royals who truly put “duty” first and literally sacrificed her own happiness (and indeed that of her sister and at times Prince Philip), to do what she felt what right and correct.
Sadly though, even she, it appears, would have fallen from grace if the extent of her “cover up” of Andrew’s appalling behaviour and lifestyle had come to light earlier.
Sadly, in my opinion, Meghan and Harry are not suited. She’s too “American” and truly doesn’t seem to appears to understand the restrictions and “duty” of the British RF. Harry is clearly “damaged”.
From the little I’ve heard about William, it seems he’s a little damaged too. Again much more concerned with “duty” and perceived “correctness” and I’ll bet not all in their household nor their relationship with our King and his wife, is all he would want it to be.
It’s truly ridiculous that our RF appear to have been troubled and damaged by “duty”. Not able to marry the people they really love/loved and are hounded by the media constantly.
They are simply “people”, different due to an accident of birth, but the same in every other way.
I’d absolutely hate to be any of them! Stuck in the “firm”, unable, in some cases, to even eat and drink when and what they want, photographed at every available opportunity and critiqued, in some instances, by the entire world and commented on constantly, too fat/too thin/too loud/too visible/not visible enough/wrong hair/wrong outfit.
People are even paid to “lip read” their conversations!
No thank you!
