Journalist chosen by MM for day-long interview at Montecito evisverates her in epic New York Magazine take down

The conditions are right for confession. It is a beautiful August day in Montecito, in a beautiful sitting room, in a beautiful home. Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, a lively 3-year-old with a shock of ginger curls identical to his father’s, toddles into the room demanding “Momma” listen to his heartbeat with a wooden toy stethoscope. He stands, tummy protruding, while his mother, Meghan, convincingly performs her glee at hearing the thump-thump, thump-thump in his chest. Archie giggles and, satisfied, toddles right back out again.

Meghan, relaxing in a cozy chair, gazes over all that is climate-controlled and high-ceilinged and sun-dappled and perfectly marshmallowy, and hers. An invisible hand has lit a Soho House–branded rose-water candle (the founder, Nick Jones, is a friend from “long before I met Harry,” she says), and that scent fills the air, mingling with the gentle tones of a flamenco-inflected guitar floating from a speaker. Then, in the lull in conversation, Meghan turns to me and leans forward to ask in a conspiratorial hush, “Do you want to know a secret?”

Meghan, silenced no more, looks around, making sure nobody (who would be?) is listening in. Then the top-secret drop: “I’m getting back … on Instagram,” she says, her eyes alight and devilish.

This could have been a troll: Delivering a nothing with such gravitas feels as if Meghan, who has been so trolled by the media, is serving it back, just a little. But, as I quickly realize, it is actually news. Before this chapter in her life, before everything difficult that spun off from marrying the Duke of Sussex and, along with him, the British monarchy, she was just Meghan Markle, a woman with a plum role on a USA procedural and a moderately popular lifestyle blog, The Tig. As herself, she’d amassed 3 million Instagram followers by sharing snippets of a basic life: yoga, food she liked, hikes with friends, her beagle, Guy. Fans watched as she attended events with her Suits castmates and charity galas, nights out at Soho House in London and Toronto. She ran that account for years before she met Harry, but on the heels of their engagement, control over her Instagram was just one of the things (along with The Tig, her passport, and the freedom to open her own mail) she gave up. She’d loved sharing her life with people, she says, but she loved Harry more. “It was a big adjustment — a huge adjustment to go from that kind of autonomy to a different life,” says Meghan.

You haters just can't give it a rest. We all read the article in "The Cut" and know what she said

Meghan was permitted to join Harry, Kate, and Will on a preexisting account, @KensingtonRoyal, that she had no control over. “There’s literally a structure by which if you want to release photos of your child, as a member of the family, you first have to give them to the Royal Rota,” the U.K. media pool, she explains. Usually, the photos would be on media outlets before she could post them herself. That didn’t sit right with Meghan, given her strained relationship with the British tabloids (“Harry’s girl is [almost] straight outta Compton” is how the Daily Mail introduced her to the British public), and especially since she would soon have a child of her own to protect. “Why would I give the very people that are calling my children the N-word a photo of my child before I can share it with the people that love my child?” she asks, still ruffled. “You tell me how that makes sense and then I’ll play that game.”

In April 2019, one month before Archie was born, Meghan and Harry launched their own Instagram handle, @sussexroyal, which reached 1 million followers within six hours. On their own account, they refused to play the “exchange game”: They broke their own news, posting photos that sometimes never even made it to the Royal Rota. Shortly after they officially stepped back from their royal duties, they shut down @sussexroyal. (They could no longer use royal in their branding.) Later, in an interview with Fortune, Meghan declared that she wasn’t planning on getting back on social media — the constant bullying had been too much. So this divulgence, in addition to being newsworthy, is a symbol of progress: proof that she and Harry have made it to the other side of all the drama that defined their past three years.

“Especially now, with Archetypes coming out,” she says, steering the conversation toward the reason she agreed to sit for an interview in the first place. Archetypes, the podcast Meghan hosts, is the first, much-anticipated offering to come from the pair of high-profile deals the couple signed in 2020 with Netflix and Spotify. Each episode features her, in conversation with her famous friends, discussing the ways women are unfairly labeled — an experience, Meghan notes, she has been through herself and is finally ready to talk about. Progress, however, is a series of steps forward and leaps backward. Later, Meghan would relay she was no longer sure she would actually return to Instagram.

Though she has been media trained and then royal-media trained and sometimes converses like she has a tiny Bachelor producer in her brain directing what she says (at one point in our conversation, instead of answering a question, she will suggest how I might transcribe the noises she’s making: “She’s making these guttural sounds, and I can’t quite articulate what it is she’s feeling in that moment because she has no word for it; she’s just moaning”), at this stage, post-royal, there’s no need for her to hold back. She’s flinging open the proverbial doors to her life; as any millennial woman whose feminism was forged in the girlboss era would understand, she has taken a hardship and turned it into content.

Yet another fucking Markle thread, are you kidding me?

Ad nauseam.

Klan Grannies are fingering themselves as op types!

OP This has been thoroughly covered in at least two other royal threads. And, although I bow to no one on my contempt for these two psychotic, lying, destructive con artists, I am telling you to knock it the fuck off.

It has already been stipulated to by 99.9% of DL royal thread participants and 99.9% of the West's mainstream media.

Ffs, with their upcoming engagements in Manchester tomorrow and London on the 8th, another three threads at least will run to 600 posts within 48 hours (at least 50% of which will be dedicated to hair, dress, accessories, and makeup).

Take it outside. This story is wrapping chips. We have upcoming fresher fish to fry.

I couldn’t get past 5 minutes of that drivel BUT, do those two dogs fuck on camera at any point in this vid? Is there dog humping as she brattles on?

It's a study in farcecality.

Revealing like no other interview and a black female journalist chosen by Markle delivers the blows.

Are you calling her a Klan Granny?

Seriously, OP, there were better threads to post this video, if you even want to waste time listening to this bagpipe cackle her way through an hour and a half. Take out the the wheezing, the self-congratulatory guffaws and crowing and the forty words where five will do and she actually only speaks for about three minutes anyway. Anybody who'd listen to this old bullshitter and that Disney queen come to life River probably can't be reasoned with anyway.

[Quote]I couldn’t get past 5 minutes of that drivel

Did you fire up a blunt as suggested?

The British media called her “straight outta Compton”? Wow that’s straight up racist.

Another day, yet more racism and hypocrisy. Megs. The media. Davis.

"I'm like so excited to talk" said Meghan.

[quote]The British media called her “straight outta Compton”? Wow that’s straight up racist.

A tabloid did, once. Otherwise, you're probably right. It was certainly with intent.

The article is written by A BLACK WOMAN. Are you now calling her racist?

The burn is still oozing.

The straight Outta Compton was the ONLY MSM incident on record. That card is already dog-eared and tired

Meanwhile, Meghan went on smearing and lying about people she knew couldn't and wouldn't respond in kind.

Racism exists. That doesn't exempt anyone with black DNA from public exposure as a repeat liar.

R16 Absolutely! Black people are racists.

Megs: Racist for demanding a black reporter.

Media: Racist for sending a black reporter to avoid racism accusations.

Reporter: Racist for accepting the gig. To say nothing of putting her integrity into question.

R18, it does if you're one of the mindless don't counts who worship her.

[quote] The article is written by A BLACK WOMAN. Are you now calling her racist?

No.

She's what is referred to in the United States, as an "Uncle Tom."

Oh, and if the family was so beastly to her, dear, why did she name her daughter after the alabaster skinned, blue-eyed Head of said family?

She could easily have named the baby Diana Doria. Oddly, poor victimised Meghan couldn't find room for the name of her one acknowledged black close relative.

Maybe Meghan figured that her daughter's straight red hair, white skin, and bright blue eyes, the kid might as well go with a full Monty White Lady (and ever so twee) name, hmmmm?

[quote] That doesn't exempt anyone with black DNA from public exposure as a repeat liar.

But it DOES exempt them from media scrutiny. See years of media turning a blind eye to Megs shenanigans.

R19 all over the page.

R21. Yes, you know MM will find a way to attack journalist Allison P. Davis. Wait for it.

So much delightful shade in this article.

The attached palm trees story astounds. Who isn't laughing?

Where's the story? I just saw the parts attached upthread

The Meghan trolls, are they also the trans trolls? I notice that when Meghan topics are up, trans ones are down and vice-versa.

OP eats shit

Here's OP. He's a shit smearer

Allison took this gutter snipe meghan down , and meghan still hasnt realized it. Stupid is as stupid is.

R28 Send that tasty bit to Allison P. Davis the BLACK journalist Meghan CHOSE to interview her.

I can’t take Lady Campbell seriously…

Here's the rest of you

^^^ send that to the BLACK WOMAN who wrote the article.

This is what Markle's monkeys are reduced to? Self-portraits in excrement? Boy, she really is winning. Even her backers make her look worse.

OP, I this article and writers is just so genius. Huge kudos to the journalist for seeing beyond skin color and reporting accurately. Wasn't this how reporting was done back in the day. The following is so good, it made me laugh rereading it:

[quote] (at one point in our conversation, instead of answering a question, she will suggest how I might transcribe the noises she’s making: “She’s making these guttural sounds, and I can’t quite articulate what it is she’s feeling in that moment because she has no word for it; she’s just moaning”), at this stage, post-royal, there’s no need for her to hold back.

LOL - what was Meghan thinking???? I could totally see her telling the author how transcribe something with no words.

The Bush Family is also "Straight Outa Compton." Yes, that Bush family, one that begat 2 Presidents of the U.S., lived in an apartment in Compton for 6 months in 1949-1950. Yes, Compton is a very different place now, but people who throw around "Compton" as some sort of insult are idiots.

Compton is not even that bad. The average house in Compton is probably 700K on the low end and there are a lot of cute Spanish bungalows. Doria is from Windsor Hills which is a nice, black area.

I wonder if Meghan took "the gutteral" route in this interview to try to redeem herself from a statement she made months ago using the word incorrectly.

She took heat for it then and rightly so. But this was another fail and even more peculiar this time around.

guttural

I thought "guttural" was such an interesting adjective per Meghan's request. I think of guttural as almost an animalistic expression of pure agony and pain like, :"she let out a guttural wailing of grief at her husbands funeral"

More at the size of his estate after the funeral.

[Quote]This is not the first time the Duchess has used the word "guttural" to describe how she is feeling. The Spectator questioned why she used the word to vocalize how she and her husband, Prince Harry, felt about the news that Roe vs Wade had been overturned. "His reaction last week was guttural, like mine," Meghan had said.

I wonder if Meghan is confusing "gutted" w/ "guttural". Feeling gutted is a British expression that would be more in line with the topics that M&H are discussing. "H and I felt gutted that we could no longer be part of the BRF". I am wondering if she is trying to make this common phrase sound more sophisticated.

The turd troll is either several people or a bit with multiple accounts. I had to block three posts before they all disappeared.

The kiddie school level of insult is a clue to Meghan's quality. This is the level of supporters she attracts.

Shit stirrer to turd trolls: like to like.

It's so tacky plugging that $100+ candle for, no doubt, a commission.

R8 No, but she smears peanut butter on her ladygarden and they lick it off.

[quote]her husband, Prince Harry, felt about the news that Roe vs Wade had been overturned. "His reaction last week was guttural,

He burped.

The number of times she uses "like" in her speech is embarrassing. To think of her speaking this way while in conversation with Her Majesty is .. well, I never in all my life. .

It's not as if Liz is the sharpest knife in the drawer.

The don't call it The Queen's English for nothing, R50

Thanks to whoever posted parts of the actual article. Not a New York subscriber and I had the impression the article was a puffpiece. The author in fact eviscerated Meghan with a fish knife.

The lie Meghan told about Mandela will no doubt seal her fate. In a Daily Beast article, somebody from the Palace is quoted as saying about the Mandela lie, will she be comparing herself to Gandhi next? lol

If someone could post the rest of the article please do. There is so much more to appreciate (mock).

That "(Almost) Straight Outta Compton" headline was written for the U.S. version of the Daily Mail, by AMERICAN journalist Ruth Styles, who is from LOS ANGELES, and was ok'd by AMERICAN head of U.S. Daily Mail Joel Steinberg, who is from NYC.

The UK D.M. only ran it AFTER the AMERICAN arm produced it, edited it, headlined it and approved it.

Meghan didn't know that, because she's an idiot who is too lazy to do any actual research, but if she wants to hold it up as "evidence of racism" then it's less evidence of racism in the UK than it is evidence of racism in her OWN HOMETOWN of Los Angeles and of that in NYC media circles.

That's so funny. Oh, life.

Like totally. She's like, so 1980s Valley Girl like fer sure, omigod!

[Quote]Meghan, silenced no more, looks around, making sure nobody (who would be?) is listening in. Then the top-secret drop: “I’m getting back … on Instagram,” she says, her eyes alight and devilish.

WTF?

I think the writer slid in the knife very skillfully and Markle is too dazzled by her own ambition to notice.

Surely by now somebody in her circle has triggered her rage around this article. I fully expect her to come for Davis as soon as she can figure out how.

The idiot who wrote that “straight outta Compton” headline gave Meghan the most marvelous gift.

Meghan’s not from Compton, but her BFF Serena is. And she made sure everyone knows it.

[quote] Meghan’s not from Compton, but her BFF Serena is.

So is Kevin Costner from Compton.

The Bush family is originally from Compton.

Hi R63!

I love reading about the Markle exploits but do we really need ANOTHER thread when there are already 4 active ones?

Here's OP's tiny, diseased dick

Here's the article from "The Cut" magazine. Allison P. Davis is the author. There should be no paywall.

Here's the archived version of the article in case you hit a paywall.

[quote] “One of the first things my husband saw when we walked around the house was those two palm trees,” she coos. “See how they’re connected at the bottom? He goes, ‘My love, it’s us.’  And now every day when Archie goes by us, he says, ‘Hi, Momma. Hi, Papa.’ ”

Yes, the palm trees bit is the worst/best IMO. Utter tripe. This gurl ain't right.

Love the palm trees comment. She's insane if she thinks anybody believes that crap. Seriously. What's wrong with her?

Yeah, they're connected at the bottom all right.

The new york cut is RACIST !!!!! They let a white trash ( meghan) get a journalist (a BLACK woman) let go. If that isnt racist and bullying behavior what is !

What? Davis has not been fired.

Meghan will come after Davis though. Count on it.

In addition to the trees joined at the bottom, Meghan also likened her & Harry to salt & pepper shakers, always moving together.

[quote] Meghan remembered something she’d learned at a young age from a friend’s mom: Salt and pepper are always passed together. “She said, ‘You never move one without the other.’ That’s me and Harry. We’re like salt and pepper. We always move together.”

Some other peculiar bits in the interview:

Meghan said Tyler Perry, whom she'd never met, sent H and M a congratulations card after their wedding. God bless your marriage or something to this effect.

Then Meghan said the reason H and M moved to S Calif was because TP - whom she'd still not met - offered them his home plus staff and security, to find a bit of peace (at no expense to them presumably).

Why tf does Tyler Perry seek out these two? And really now, are we meant to believe the primary reason H and M moved to LA was because Perry offered them housing?

Maybe it was something to do with Oprah. I think TP and Oprah are friends.

R76. Dear god, this woman is not right. Every attempt to make herself seem special reveals her to be common as dirt.

Davis describes H and M's desk in their office. It's one desk with two chairs on either side that resemble thrones (LMAO).

Yes, I forgot about the desks and the thrones.

Stephen King wrote a book about his struggle to get off of alcohol. Once he got sober, he looked at the desk in his office and likened it to a ship (or something like that). The point being that, with sober eyes, his desk looked pompous. He ended up swapping out his desk for something smaller.

Meghan says even though she's stepped back from royal duties she realizes that people still see her as a princess.

"It's important to be thoughtful about it because even when I did the Oprah interview I was conscious of the fact that there are little girls I meet and they're like oh my god it's a real life princess."

You can't write this hilarious shit. It's drag show material.

I think Davis would relish the opportunity, r75.

Davis has not been sacked. She is writing a book and has taken unpaid leave to finish it. Her bio is still up on the web site.

Davis will have more cachet from now on. It wouldn't surprise me if this is the most clicked on article in The Cut's history.

That Markle gave Davis - a journalist she'd never met - a big warm hug as she invited her inside speaks clearly to Meghan's attempts at manipulation. Who tf does such a thing? She thought she had Davis in her pocket.

I think Dianne Sawyer and Robin Roberts hug the subjects of their interviews. IIRC, DS hugged Ashley Judd after Naomi's suicide. Robin in also very empathetic.

That said, yeah, I think Meghan probably thought Davis was not going to be a problem at all. Not that Davis was a problem, but she clearly thought there would be more substance to write about.

R74 she tweeted that she was given a "vacation" at her own expense. Markle is a real cunt.

I liked the ending where Meghan gives her a gift basket and rushes her out the door while making it seem like it was her idea

She asked for the vacation to finish her book. She'll be back

Davis was not put on leave without pay. She is writing a book and took that leave to work on it. Magazines generally don't pay people to go work on books.

And kudos to Davis, either way, for not backing down on her piece, which was a masterpiece of the Pen Being Mightier Than The Swordmanship.

Meghan and Harry should be treated the way Alice does as she exits Wonderland: "I'm not afraid of you! You're just a pack of cards!"

Because that's just what Harry and Meghan are: two-dimensional images of something they aren't but would like to be.

Saw pics of the Marvelous Markles in the UK. Harry is wearing Cuban heels and it would appear lifts in his shoes. He's quite tall. WTF? She also put on blackface but forgot to blacken her hands.

I personally don't give a fuck about racism because PoC are the most hypocritical, ignorant, grifting people on earth, but if the Royals were as racist as MM claims then she would never have been allowed to marry Harry in the first place and British taxpayers wouldn't have picked up the bill for her wedding.

Americans are fucking thick AF.

Are Harry and Meghan oblivious to how they are perceived by the world? Or do they have a 'target audience' they care about (navel-gazing Millennials) and couldn't care less about anyone else? Because they're kind of a joke.

R93 the only reason the Royals let Harry marry an aging divorced American starlet is because she was biracial.

Ms Davis will be gratified to know that the Sussexes were loudly booed today by about100 people behind the barrier as they got out of their car. DM has the story.

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If the Royals were racist, R95, they wouldn't have let Harry marry a "biracial" either, much less pose for photos with the "biracial's" noticeably black mother.

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I don't know how Meghan's pants got so rumpled.

They had to take a *train* to Manchester! Oh, the horror.

Why is she so orange in the R97 photos? She's turning into a female Trump.

She's very Trumpy.

She presenting as black to enable accusations of racism, if needed

The only thing missing from Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex's entrance was a pitchfork and a pair of horns. Did "her people" dress her for such a symbolic occasion?

Amazing she doesn't care her own people hate her after THREE years of messages

Jaysus!

Who the fuck are these cypher freaks at OP’s link?

The craziest part in that video is not what she says, but who she is.

Whatever.

[quote] That’s me and Harry. We’re like salt and pepper. We always move together.

The world is waiting for them to star in a Netflix reboot of this classic.

R87, Diane Sawyer and Ashley Judd hugged because they've known each other for years. Markle hugging this interviewer was most likely an attempt to gaslight her into thinking they were friends. It's telling that Markle didn't vet potential interviewers better. No doubt she assumed since Allison Davis was black, she'd side with her in the piece.

If she erred really that dark, her kids wouldn't look thr way they do, Harry or no Harry.

There are thousands of photos of Meghan, including in her SUITS days making it obvious she darkened herself up for this trip. That's why so many people didn't know she was biracial.

It's unintentionally insulting to actual black people that she did so; it's emblematic of how far gone she is mentally that she thought no one would notice. And, she appears to have forgotten to do her hands.

The widening fissures in their psychological landscape are approaching alarming.

And either their PR should be sacked, or are moles hired by the BRF with dark.money.

^*were really that dark

I’d imagine (but don’t know for sure) that her ability to change from black to white at will/on a whim is irksome to black people. Most black people don’t have the *privilege* of passing.

But I’ve seen plenty of comments from black Twitter that call her their Queen and nonsense like that.

She's more white than black. Her mother is half black and half white. Her father is 100% white. So that makes MM three quarters white and only one quarter black.

Bullshit. MM is blacker than Mariah Carey and Halle Berry multiplied by ten million. Girl is super black.

R113 giggle