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Meghan rejects ‘gendered’ idea she was lucky to be chosen as Harry’s bride

The Duchess of Sussex has dismissed comments she was lucky Prince Harry chose her as his bride as “gendered, archetyped and stereotyped” in a new podcast, released as the couple arrived in Germany to promote the Invictus Games.

Meghan said that when she and Harry got engaged, “everyone was just like: ‘Oh, my God, you’re so lucky, he chose you’. At a certain point, after you hear it a million times over, you’re like: ‘Well, I chose him, too.’

“But, thankfully, I have a partner who was countering that narrative for me and going: ‘They’ve got it all wrong. I’m the lucky one because you chose me.’

“But it is gendered and it’s archetyped and stereotyped that you’re so lucky, and it just feeds into this idea that you’re waiting for someone to tell you that you’re good enough, as opposed to knowing that you’re good enough on your own,” she said.

Meghan made the comments as she interviewed the US actor Mindy Kaling about the joys, challenges and stigmas of being a single woman.

It was released as the Sussexes arrived in Düsseldorf, west Germany, for the one-year countdown to the next Invictus Games, which are to be held in the city next year.

Meghan also revealed: “When I was 14, I planned my wedding. Not my actual wedding – that would have been a bit harder to imagine.” The wedding planning project was set as a religious studies assignment at her Catholic school.

The duchess, who has married twice, said she wanted her wedding to be in the Hotel Bel-Air with a “Swan Lake” and “oh my goodness, the dress, strapless and pouffy”.

“I took this project seriously; I wanted to get an A. And I did. Maybe I got an A-minus.” But she questioned why the assignment had even existed, saying: “At no point can you say: ‘Nope. My dream for the future is to be single.’

“The message even at my feminist all-girls school was as traditional as it gets. First comes love. Then comes marriage.” She recently revisited the school and discovered the wedding project has since been dropped, she said.

She also described being “alone so much as a child” and a “latchkey kid”, saying she romanticised the Archie comic stories because she wanted the “cookie cutter-looking perfect life”.

When Kaling asked her: “Were you not the pretty one growing up?”, Meghan replied: “No. Oh, God, no.

“Ugly duckling … Maybe not conventional beauty – now maybe that would be seen as beautiful – but massive frizzy curly hair and a huge gap in my teeth. I was the smart one for ever and ever and ever and ever, and then just sort of grew up.”

She added: “It was really hard … I never had anyone to sit with at lunch. I was always a little bit of a loner and really shy, and didn’t know where I fit in.

“I was like: ‘I’ll become the president of the multicultural club and the president of sophomore class and the president of this and French club and …’ and, by doing that, I had meetings at lunchtime,” she added.

The couple were given a red-carpet welcome in Düsseldorf by hundreds of cheering fans and took part in a walkabout, with Harry giving a speech promoting the games for wounded service personnel and veterans, which he founded.

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by Anonymousreply 122November 29, 2022 1:50 AM

She can't even admit that she WAS lucky.... she's SUCH a psychopath.

by Anonymousreply 1September 7, 2022 4:00 AM

Can this ridiculous woman please fall off the face of the earth.

by Anonymousreply 2September 7, 2022 4:03 AM

[quote] “But, thankfully, I have a partner who was countering that narrative for me and going: ‘They’ve got it all wrong. [bold]I’m the lucky one because you chose me.’ [/bold]

[quote] “Ugly duckling … [bold]Maybe not conventional beauty – now maybe that would be seen as beautiful[/bold]

[quote] [bold]I was the smart one for ever and ever and ever and ever,[/bold]

[quote] “I was like: [bold]‘I’ll become the president of the multicultural club and the president of sophomore class and the president of this and French club and …’ and, by doing that,[/bold] I had meetings at lunchtime,” she added.

She really needs to stop hiding her light under a bushel.

by Anonymousreply 3September 7, 2022 4:05 AM

She STILL does not understand what the word "archetypes" means.

by Anonymousreply 4September 7, 2022 4:07 AM

Indeed, r4. She means "Stereotypes" and doesn't seem to realise that "Archetypes" and "Stereotypes" are two different things.

by Anonymousreply 5September 7, 2022 4:09 AM

She makes a fair point. No doubt she was the calculating aggressor in the relationship.

The pussy whipped prince wanting a new mommy was putty in her hands.

by Anonymousreply 6September 7, 2022 4:11 AM

She just wanted "arch" (archetype) because the son's name is Arch-ie.

Yeah, Harry is so pussy-whipped it's pathetic. There was a photo of him hugging someone and Meghan's got her hand clawed into his back (while he's hugging someone else).

I don't even think she's smart. She never says anything new or incisive.

I do give her credit for becoming a millionaire on her own, hanging out at Soho House, meeting Harry, and then marrying into the royal family. No way she'd date Harry if not for that.

by Anonymousreply 7September 7, 2022 4:17 AM

She's smart compared to him, but that's a low bar.

She's also a massive liar. This is the type of person who absolutely had friends and was probably one of the mean girls in school. But in this interview she pretends as if she had no one to sit with at lunch and just had to become the president of different clubs to get people to sit with her. Reminds me of models who always claim to have been a bullied ugly duckling in school.

by Anonymousreply 8September 7, 2022 4:23 AM

What is up with her skin? is it really that pockmarked, or is it just bad lighting?

by Anonymousreply 9September 7, 2022 4:26 AM

She looks INCREDIBLY bad in OP's picture. Her makeup is so visibly cakey and she's looking relatively old. Her cheeks look wrinkly. There's something wrong with her teeth/mouthshape now too - badly fitted new veneers? - which make them look like dentures.

If they're running pictures like this, does that mean the Guardian now hates her? Ah, well. They were *such* fans, too....

[Reposting OP's link for when the KGTroll and other LSA/Celebitchy types come in to grey OP's post]

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by Anonymousreply 10September 7, 2022 4:27 AM

She's got freckles & peach fuzz, she's 40, the sun (harsh lighting) is on her face. I don't think it's pock marks, it's just peach fuzz.

by Anonymousreply 11September 7, 2022 4:30 AM

Its fuzz that is visibly CAKED in foundation and contouring, r11.

by Anonymousreply 12September 7, 2022 4:31 AM

[quote]Indeed, [R4]. She means "Stereotypes" and doesn't seem to realise that "Archetypes" and "Stereotypes" are two different things.

People seem to expect so much of her.

by Anonymousreply 13September 7, 2022 4:33 AM

Her eyes look weirdly old and so does her mouth, r11. Neither is being hit by sunlight in that photo.

by Anonymousreply 14September 7, 2022 4:33 AM

[quote] I don't think it's pock marks, it's just peach fuzz.

Are you kidding? The Sea of Tranquillity is smoother than that surface.

by Anonymousreply 15September 7, 2022 4:56 AM

Yeah Meghan, you were lucky because he chose you and therefore people actually know who the fuck you are because I very much doubt there were many Suits superfans.

Yes, you chose him, as well. But, that's the point. Your choosing him wasn't lucky for him.

by Anonymousreply 16September 7, 2022 5:00 AM

[quote] Your choosing him wasn't lucky for him

You can say THAT again

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by Anonymousreply 17September 7, 2022 5:01 AM

He chose her as well. You can't blame it all on her. He's a whining crybaby as well. Also, Harry is just plain dumb and has not much interesting to say.

by Anonymousreply 18September 7, 2022 5:02 AM

R18 The difference is I think he made a mistaken choice, her choice was planned out as soon as they met.

by Anonymousreply 19September 7, 2022 5:06 AM

Given what I've learned about her and her multiple apparent psychoses, I'm willing to bet that this conartist "chose him" many years BEFORE she was able to find a way to finagle herself into his life...

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by Anonymousreply 20September 7, 2022 5:07 AM

She planned meeting Harry from well before she met him

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by Anonymousreply 21September 7, 2022 5:10 AM

Meghan has stalked other people she wants to be close to

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by Anonymousreply 22September 7, 2022 5:11 AM

Meghan will always be on the highest pedestal. DL put her there, and will continue to keep her there.

by Anonymousreply 23September 7, 2022 5:14 AM

R20 I fully believe that, as well. I remember she claimed she didn't know anything about him or his family before meeting him, BULLSHIT. There isn't a person who grew up when she did, in the US, who doesn't know ANYTHING about the British royal family, especially the big main ones. If you just casually watch tv, you will at least know basics about them. Unless you are EXTREEMLY stupid or Amish. I mean you can go to the most bumfuck redneck place and ask Bubba if he knows who Prince Harry is and he will at least be able to say, "I think it's the redheaded one."

by Anonymousreply 24September 7, 2022 5:14 AM

Everyone should locate a rich, damaged Englishman to marry and manipulate.

by Anonymousreply 25September 7, 2022 5:16 AM

DL doesn't deal in high pedestals, r23, dear. It deals in the lowest of the low rung hanger-ons. Like Meghan.

by Anonymousreply 26September 7, 2022 5:16 AM

R25 Be careful, sometimes they do stupid things and the world requires you to marry them even though you don't want to. Then you have to spend the rest of your life pretending to be half of the world's greatest romance.

by Anonymousreply 27September 7, 2022 5:19 AM

HangerS-on!!

I'm Oh Dearing myself to save all of you the trouble

by Anonymousreply 28September 7, 2022 5:22 AM

Megs uses archetypes because it ties in with her brand Archewell. She doesn’t care that she misuses the word and sounds like an illiterate moron each time she does.

by Anonymousreply 29September 7, 2022 5:23 AM

But at least Wallis looked fabulous on her wedding day, r27, and did not wear a roomy, ill-fitting silken sack like ANOTHER "Duchess" who annoyed the BRF

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by Anonymousreply 30September 7, 2022 5:31 AM

I still think it's comical that Markle tried and failed to trademark the centuries old world 'archetypes'. Not only that, she tried and failed to trademark 'The Tig', too. The stupid bitch is always grifting.

by Anonymousreply 31September 7, 2022 5:31 AM

Harry is lucky Meghan had to record this podcast, so he had time to spend with this "Punish Me, Headmaster!" porn collection.

by Anonymousreply 32September 7, 2022 5:32 AM

Kate had a poster of William on her wall. Harry had a poster of Halle Berry (light-skinned biracial woman like Meghan). I think Kelly Preston had a poster of John Travolta on her wall. Some people are just in the position to have their dreams materialize.

by Anonymousreply 33September 7, 2022 5:35 AM

Wasn't she a yacht girl? Didn't she meet Harry after his mate passed her on to him?

by Anonymousreply 34September 7, 2022 5:38 AM

Kate did not have a poster of William on her wall.

I don't know if Meg was a yacht girl. But given what she has done in the past for money and fame, I wouldn't doubt it.

by Anonymousreply 35September 7, 2022 5:40 AM

Well if that's true, r34, then poor Cory had been cheated on many more times than we originally thought.

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by Anonymousreply 36September 7, 2022 5:41 AM

I thought my mom was the yacht girl?

by Anonymousreply 37September 7, 2022 5:43 AM

I wonder if Meghan knows Colton Haynes from the yacht circuit.

by Anonymousreply 38September 7, 2022 5:47 AM

Your mother OWNS yachts, Charlotte dear. And before she did, her uncle owned a fleet of large sailboats. That's why she's such a skilled sailor.

It's very, VERY different from what your "Aunt" Meghan did on boats: whenever SHE was Aboard, someone was Astride.

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by Anonymousreply 39September 7, 2022 5:49 AM

Megs treats everyone as a rung to be stepped on on the upward fame/fortune ladder. While living with Vitiello, Megs stalked Ashley Cole, Rory Mcilroy, cultivated James Fitzpatrick, arranged to meet Piers Morgan and hounded her agent Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne, all rungs in her campaign to be set up with suitable wealthy famous British men. In the end, it was her meeting at Wimbledon with Ralph Lauren publicist Violet von Westenholz (Megs had been hired to wear Lauren at Wimbledon), whose father was an old friend of Camilla's and who knew Harry, whom Megs inveigled a blind date with Harry. And the rest is the on-going trainwreck.

by Anonymousreply 40September 7, 2022 6:04 AM

She was hired to wear Ralph Lauren? With that odd body and stick legs? Wow.

by Anonymousreply 41September 7, 2022 6:55 AM

They're just like us.

by Anonymousreply 42September 7, 2022 7:02 AM

Was that when someone asked her to see her ticket/pass in the vip area?? She looked pissed and the people around her looked embarrassed for her.

by Anonymousreply 43September 7, 2022 7:07 AM

There's an interview where she says she scored 99th percentile in Language Arts, English and was really bad at math.

Then she says had trouble passing the Foreign Service Test when she wanted to work at an embassy.

I think it's easy but if she was early 20s at the time maybe it's more of a challenge.

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by Anonymousreply 44September 7, 2022 7:08 AM

Learning to fuck was more important.

by Anonymousreply 45September 7, 2022 7:15 AM

You should have signed that, 45

Signature suggestions: Kim? Kamala? Meghan?

by Anonymousreply 46September 7, 2022 7:22 AM

In the 1950s, a strange-looking prince of a tiny, financially perilous principality married a beautiful, Academy-award-winning actress still in her 20s. He was lucky. (And that was in the very “ gendered” society of the 1950s.). Harry wasn’t lucky. He was desperate and undesirable.

by Anonymousreply 47September 7, 2022 7:33 AM

So tired of all the fags on here hating Meghan. You don't like her, fine. But there's no need to pile on. Grow the fuck up, losers.

by Anonymousreply 48September 7, 2022 7:38 AM

I always think of myself as a horrible bitch. I call myself a monster. But when I come on these Meghan threads, I learn a lot about what monstrous meanness is.

She ain't a killer, y'know? Damn. Y'all could pull a few punches, save them for actual killers. Just a thought.

It's no wonder why Harry Windsor is so protective of her. He must see such comments about his wife.

by Anonymousreply 49September 7, 2022 7:38 AM

Albert was, indeed, lucky, r47

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by Anonymousreply 50September 7, 2022 7:40 AM

This wench is despicable. She has already killed a 99-year-old pensioner!

by Anonymousreply 51September 7, 2022 7:42 AM

And she's not done yet!

by Anonymousreply 52September 7, 2022 7:45 AM

R48. And we’re not killing her either. She’ just fun to mock. Since she’ a nasty person who pays a lot of money to PR agencies be mocked, we oblige

She insists on being noticed daily. If no one paid attention to her, she and her supporters would be upset she is being ignored. She’s really a stupid and unpleasant woman. If she doesn’t want to be reminded of those facts about herself, she could lead a private life If she went away for good, people would stop mocking her within weeks. People would quickly lose interest in reminiscing about how stupid and awful she was. She’d be completely irrelevant once she shuts up

by Anonymousreply 53September 7, 2022 7:53 AM

I still don’t believe that Violet von W story. I think Meghan was pestering everyone to introduce her to Harry and/or William. Why an aristo obliged, I do not understand; didn’t Violet see how she was being used? Don’t these people know how to spot a grifter?!

I’d be very embarrassed to be blamed for letting that viper into the BRF.

by Anonymousreply 54September 7, 2022 8:58 AM

R48 Go back to LSA, whore.

by Anonymousreply 55September 7, 2022 9:11 AM

Meghan has this thing where she makes up her own meaning for words.

How is it a “gendered” idea to say someone is lucky to be chosen as a romantic partner? I’ve heard all kinds of people say that about their partners. What does “gender” have to do with it?

“Archetypes” means “stereotypes”

“Singleton” now means “unmarried woman” instead of “only child”.

She’s trying to make “thornback” happen. Please chime in if you’ve ever head this word before.

And her speech to that WEF-lite audience had nothing to do with gender equality. Does she know what that is?

by Anonymousreply 56September 7, 2022 9:16 AM

Only her mother showed up for her wedding. What sort of red flag is that?

by Anonymousreply 57September 7, 2022 9:36 AM

When you have Oprah and Gayle at your wedding who else do you need ?

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by Anonymousreply 58September 7, 2022 9:38 AM

"Mock turtleneck in summer?"

by Anonymousreply 59September 7, 2022 10:25 AM

She abandoned a rescue dog because it had the good taste to not like Harry. That was all I needed to know.

by Anonymousreply 60September 7, 2022 10:28 AM

Not really gendered to think a D-list actress is lucky to marry a prince, even a balding idiot prince. She still became a Duchess and now people have to pretend she's someone important

by Anonymousreply 61September 7, 2022 10:34 AM

I can envision Meghan’s self-worthworkshops and self-awareness feminist book series coming up next.

by Anonymousreply 62September 7, 2022 10:34 AM

Well I'm quite enjoying the narrative here, R48. She our archetype villainess - and if only Joan Rivers were still alive to give us Meghan updates. In the meantime, we'll have to be Mr Blackwell and do her fashion horror reviews ourselves. BTW, where's Kathy Griffin when you need her? We have to make do with River and Split with Sam Roffey

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by Anonymousreply 63September 7, 2022 10:39 AM

[quote]She was hired to wear Ralph Lauren? With that odd body and stick legs?

Hers or Ralph's?

by Anonymousreply 64September 7, 2022 10:55 AM

[quote]She’ just fun to mock. Since she’ a nasty person who pays a lot of money to PR agencies be mocked, we oblige

I agree with this statement; taking from the Kardashian thread, it's "I don't care what you say, just talk about me!" kind of thing. A person with an ounce of self-awareness would change their tone, adopt some (fake) humility or maybe even fade into the background. But not Megs, she seems to revel in being clueless & horrible. But while she's made of much tougher stuff, I have to think all of this alienation is killing Harry, a hothouse flower who doesn't seem to know to exist outside the palace walls. But this is the life he chose, so here he is

by Anonymousreply 65September 7, 2022 11:21 AM

Uvalde ghoul stunting was worse than even Kim's sex tape when considered in a famewhore context

by Anonymousreply 66September 7, 2022 12:06 PM

I never knew ideas had genders.

by Anonymousreply 67September 7, 2022 12:10 PM

r67 Just TRY to keep UP, Rose!

by Anonymousreply 68September 7, 2022 12:17 PM

The doorknob that gave me monkeypox was gendered.

by Anonymousreply 69September 7, 2022 12:19 PM

[quote] Why an aristo obliged, I do not understand; didn’t Violet see how she was being used?

Hindsight is always 20/20. And then there's reality. Including that von Westenholz was not an aristo. Bower describes her as a "well-connected socialite".

From Tom Bower, Revenge, Page 108:

[quote] Finding Meghan a suitable Englishman became a pressing issue. Her prospects were discussed after she landed at Hydra, an island south of Athens. Her best friend Lindsay Roth was hosting a weekend’s hen-party before marrying a British actuary. Prince Harry came up in the conversation. Nonoo had met him through Gilkes. Harry was certainly eligible, but was known as feckless towards women.

[quote] From Greece, Meghan headed to London to promote Suits and herself. Once more she met Lizzie Cundy. Again they discussed Meghan’s chance of appearing in a similar show to Made in Chelsea. She also reaffirmed her everlasting interest in Englishmen. Yet again, Cundy could offer no one suitable.

[quote] Meghan had been hired to wear Ralph Lauren during the Wimbledon fortnight. The tournament started on 27th June. Fortuitously for Meghan, Ralph Lauren’s newly appointed publicist was Violet von Westenholz, a well-connected 31-year-old socialite. Her father, Piers, an interior decorator and antique dealer, was an old friend of Prince Charles’s wife Camilla. During Charles’s weekend visits to the Westenholz’ Hertfordshire country home and during joint family holidays, their children Violet and Harry had played together. During a conversation with Westenholz at Wimbledon, Meghan mentioned that connection. In her empathetic manner, she persuaded Violet, a sensitive soul, to arrange a blind date with Harry. Before agreeing, Westenholz sent Harry photos of Meghan.

It's as simple as Megs found a sucker - von Westenholz - to do her bidding. And the rest is the on-going trainwreck.

by Anonymousreply 70September 7, 2022 12:45 PM

^^^ Page 108-109

by Anonymousreply 71September 7, 2022 12:46 PM

[quote] Only her mother showed up for her wedding. What sort of red flag is that?

Only her mother was invited. For Megs, it served two purposes for her BRF grift to come. She could again use the "the family she never had" lie. And Doria served to establish her "I'm black" control card that she used with devastating effect against the BRF.

by Anonymousreply 72September 7, 2022 12:56 PM

It's not a gendered idea that she was lucky to marry a member of the Royal family. The average person is, rightly or wrongly, generally considered extremely lucky to marry a prince or princess who is heir to a shit-ton of money and a couple of palaces. I know Mark Phillips was when he married Anne, and Fergie when she married Andrew.

R33, it was Diana who had a poster of Charles on her wall (actually, I believe, in her locker, where they get to have such things at boarding school).

by Anonymousreply 73September 7, 2022 2:18 PM

This is Data Lounge. Her too-long, creased palazzo pants are worse than Hitler.

by Anonymousreply 74September 7, 2022 4:37 PM

Is this a “sexist” statement?

[quote] 'The happy couple has enchanted the world with their real-life fairytale,“

According to Meghan, it is. She knocked Allison Langdon (Australian “60 Minutes”) for making this sexist statement in 2018.

(The Australian media is NOT on of their fans, so Markle had to clap back at Langdon somehow. And remind Mindy Kaling that SHE had a $50 million wedding to a Prince AND Mindy never managed to snag a man.)

But is it SEXIST?

by Anonymousreply 75September 7, 2022 4:42 PM

Give me what I want, and if you don't, you're racist.

by Anonymousreply 76September 7, 2022 4:52 PM

Why can this woman not learn to stop vomiting psychobabble to interviewers? It makes a TERRIBLE impression and does nothing to quiet her own internal demons. She goes on and on as though some day masses of people are going to suddenly awaken to the realization that they’ve been terribly cruel to her while all she has ever wanted — subsequent to her sumptuous wedding into the royal family of England — is for everything to go her own way.

Lady, grow the fuck up and suffer in silence for once! I don’t personally worship Katie but the woman knows how to keep her own counsel.

by Anonymousreply 77September 7, 2022 4:56 PM

R77, yeah, I don’t get the whole “either/or” with Meghan and Kate. I’m lukewarm on Kate because she’s not very electrifying. But I can appreciate that she is “boring” and stable. And I love Meghan for being a fascinating case of pathology.

by Anonymousreply 78September 7, 2022 5:29 PM

[quote] [R33], it was Diana who had a poster of Charles on her wall (actually, I believe, in her locker, where they get to have such things at boarding school).

I think Kate did, too, though. I remember a post-engagement interview of W&K. The interviewer asked Kate if she had a poster of William in her room. Kate laughed and said no. William looked at her with a face that said, "Come on, just be honest." Kate's laugh also was sort of embarrassed. Hence, I think she really did have a poster of him on her wall.

by Anonymousreply 79September 7, 2022 5:58 PM

Didn't everyone have a Prince William poster? I sure did.

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by Anonymousreply 80September 7, 2022 6:27 PM

My God, he was so beautiful. Now he's a bit awkward in the face, but he's sexy in a manly way.

by Anonymousreply 81September 7, 2022 6:47 PM

yumm.

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by Anonymousreply 82September 7, 2022 6:49 PM

R81 The tan really suited him, he looked like a young Apollo with that golden coloring.

by Anonymousreply 83September 7, 2022 7:08 PM

She looks like Minnie Driver in OP’s pic

by Anonymousreply 84September 7, 2022 8:03 PM

R75, for Meghan to have a team of 28 working on her podcast and that's the quote used to illustrate her point makes me question if the UK press WERE as bad toward her in the beginning as she claimed. It's becoming clear to many she twists everything and/or may live in an alternate reality. Of the two worst headlines displayed in the Oprah show, one was from the US version of the Daily Mail, and another front page featured a racist rant about her which the paper was criticising FOR the ranter being so racist. But it was shown as if the racist rant was written by the paper.

Over a year later, Harry began legal action against the DM for writing an article about him which was critical and he also claimed the critical READER COMMENTS should not have been allowed.

During her recent speech, MM mentioned criticism. Um, how does that pertain to One World or whatever she was shilling? (which IS run more like a business than a charity). For OW to have Bob Geldof and former PM'S involved is interesting.

However critical the UK press were before Megxit and Oprah and every Sussex mis-step since, the UK runs on a free press and all that the Sussexes have shown is a lack of tolerance to critism and questioning.

By labelling the UK press as being unwelcoming and not considering and being thankful to way the UK welcomed her with crowds, the multimillion pound wedding "spectacle" and the people who shared in the joy of her wedding (okay, not me as her dumping of Bogart the rescue dog had put me off, as it would have others. UK peeps in particular are known for taking animal welfare extremely seriously), she's insulted the people of the UK.

And when it comes to charity, the UK press raised a hell of a lot more funds to help with the Ukraine fending off Russia than Archewell did.

Right from the beginning, MM picked a fight she couldn't win. But WERE the UK press actually racist? The news that the Sussexes employed decoy cars in Manchaster and required a doctor supplied with medical equipment to accompany them in Dusseldorf is mindboggling. They're just not that important and it's staggering they think they're in that much danger. If they were, RAVEC would assign people to protect them.

by Anonymousreply 85September 8, 2022 1:37 AM

PMs, ManchEster

by Anonymousreply 86September 8, 2022 1:40 AM

[QUOTE]required a doctor supplied with medical equipment

What? Doesn't Manchester have paramedics or hospitals?

by Anonymousreply 87September 8, 2022 1:53 AM

They needed one specializing in Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

by Anonymousreply 88September 8, 2022 2:11 AM

She has a point. It is a rather sexist notion.

They fell in love. They found each other.

I don't think she understands the meaning of "archetype." And what about the woman she was interviewing. She makes it all about herself.

by Anonymousreply 89September 8, 2022 2:19 AM

Its not sexist. Men can be said to be lucky in marriage. In her case, she s just somebody with little to offer.

by Anonymousreply 90September 8, 2022 2:22 AM

R90 is right: the expression is not sexist. She WAS lucky in marriage; she married someone with more money, more fame, and more connections.

by Anonymousreply 91September 8, 2022 2:26 AM

William's daughter looks like his spitting image at /r80/

Can't wait for the teenage, hell-raising years for those kids.

by Anonymousreply 92September 8, 2022 2:30 AM

She only has this platform because of her marriage, let's take our heads out of pretendy la-la-land.

by Anonymousreply 93September 8, 2022 2:39 AM

She’s insufferable. It’s as if she found a pot of gold in the middle of the street and spent the rest of her life complaining about how heavy the pot of gold was, that it was raining the day she found the pot of gold and she got wet collecting it, that the neighbours didn’t thank her enough for removing the pot of gold from the street, etc.

by Anonymousreply 94September 8, 2022 2:44 AM

Rewinding to OP's scary picture, there's something more serious than usual going on in that masculine jawline. Sparkles has jaw problems, an underbite, and 10,000 teeth crowding each other. This is at least the fourth set of veneers on top of whatever surgeries she's had, and she's finally lost all control of the bottom half of her face (not that the top half is much better). It's all going to shit quite rapidly -- lumpy, uneven, visible underbite pushing out, and on top of all that, lip fillers to serve that frozen smile. Ouch, what the gurls do for their beauty.

by Anonymousreply 95September 8, 2022 2:55 AM

R87, it was in Dusseldorf that they were provided with the doctor and medical equipment...and where the three mile trip from the airport to their destination featured road blocks so they weren't subjected to traffic delays. It sounds like Harry is paranoid.

It may have been on the Dax Shepard podcast that he re-framed his mother's accident as being about her being chased due to being with a POC. Nevermind Diana had been on the phone to Richard Kay of the DM regularly throughout her last holiday ...

Harry is quoted as saying during the Oprah interview that he doesn't want history to repeat itself with regard to Diana's accident. Well why would it unless they got into a car with a drunken, speeding driver and Harry and MM weren't strapped in? This points to people living in their own reality. So many things they say don't make sense and now it's clear they both have an agenda.

So going back to their first official complaint, an open letter from Harry complaining about press people breaking into MM's garage (did that happen? I read it didn't), MM and Doria being hassled by crowds of paparazzi (where are photos or footage supporting this?) and virulently racist reporting on MM by the UK press...well I'm starting to doubt the latter.

Also, anyone who is born or married into the BRF is lucky. Far luckier than most of us in terms of financial security. It really is like winning the lottery in a material and financial sense. In time whoever marries the Cambridge children will be lucky. It IS far different to falling in love with a fellow pleb.

For MM to say the coverage is sexist because people told her "a million times" she was lucky but to demonstrate her point with a sound clip of someone not actually saying that...she's not believable. Her podcast is the perfect platform to speak out and on this point 1. She's whingeing again and 2. She can't back up what she heard "a million times"

She's not believable as a rational, logical person and she can't blame the media on that. If she's still healing as she claimed in The Cut, then she needs professional help in a big way and that is something she has to take hold of, not blame on others. At 41 years of age, with a mother with a psychology (?) degree who has a background in social work, all her money and time ...she has many more advantages than 99% of us

Unless she wants to just continue making herself out to a victim and telling lies because it's easier.

by Anonymousreply 96September 8, 2022 3:00 AM

To me she always sounded like an earnest teacher's pet who moonlights as a BBQ lovin', finger lickin' attention whore for men's magazines.

by Anonymousreply 97September 8, 2022 3:07 AM

Diana’s death was the best thing that ever happened to this parasite. How else could she have manipulated the emotionally stunted, weak willed idiot had his mother not died tragically?

by Anonymousreply 98September 8, 2022 3:21 AM

R90 Exactly, I've never heard many people say Melania Trump was lucky for marrying Donald, but I've heard a lot of people, even MAGA types, who will say Donald Trump was lucky to have married Melania. In their case it is a mishmash of looks.

In the case of Harry and Meghan it is because no matter how many times she tries to claim it, she was a nobody before they got together. She was on a show most people had never heard of. She wasn't B-list, she was like C-list at best. Therefore people consider her the lucky one because of her marriage they actually know who the fuck she is.

by Anonymousreply 99September 8, 2022 3:21 AM

When Harry met Meggy

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by Anonymousreply 100September 8, 2022 4:15 AM

[quote]The duchess, who has married twice

Fact check!

by Anonymousreply 101September 8, 2022 4:30 AM

The gray pubes by her ears are killing me! I want to shave them.

by Anonymousreply 102September 8, 2022 4:53 AM

Why is she wearing clunky, dangling earrings with headphones?

by Anonymousreply 103September 8, 2022 6:36 AM

She so smart. She so brave. She so great.

by Anonymousreply 104September 8, 2022 7:24 AM

I am this close to putting a hex on that cunt so that she will suffer perpetual diarrhea through her vagina until she divorces Harry, gives him full custody of the kids and permanently relocates to Antarctica never to talk to the media or anyone else for that matter ever again.

by Anonymousreply 105September 8, 2022 8:45 AM

R90, your post had me reconsider my own (@ R89). Yes, choice is at the basis of entering into a marriage (or any relationship apart from the one we're born into).

Meghan Markle chose Harry, too.

And I'd argue that she had a great deal more to offer than he. She's educated. She had success as an actress. She had an independent income. He is poorly educated. His career and income stem from his birth and privilege.

I did not think that she would ever fit the mold of any previous royal bride of cutting ribbons and opening the latest Tesco. I did think that she could have had a positive impact had she and the "Court" met each other half way and figured out some new role

The pair have revealed themselves to be narcissistic axe-grinders...strangely enough not unlike that imbecile who is the former POTUS in Palm Beach.

by Anonymousreply 106September 8, 2022 11:54 AM

They both attended elite educational institutions. But they are both quite stupid and vapid.

by Anonymousreply 107September 8, 2022 11:57 AM

[quote]I've heard a lot of people, even MAGA types, who will say Donald Trump was lucky to have married Melania

Eww. You'd have to have the taste and discrimination of a MAGA person to say such a thing. BOTH of them are terrible catches.

R016, Harry inherited millions from Diana and was (probably still is, to a lesser extent) in line for a lot more "independent income" when Charles becomes King. Meghan was not Ashton Kutcher in the finance department, so he outranks her there. "Success as an actress" is not an accomplishment, since it can be achieved by blowing the right producer. Being a really GOOD actress is an accomplishment, but nobody is claiming that for Meghan, not even you. The difference between their educational statuses is that he can't speak at all and she talks incessant word soup.

by Anonymousreply 108September 8, 2022 12:00 PM

Diana's will gave William and Harry independent incomes. None of the other members of the BRF have that. They are basically on the dole which the queen distributes, in houses that she owns/controls. Their opportunities to make more money are limited because it can't be seen as having traded in on their royal connection. Hence Sophie giving up her PR job and Anne's son doing milk commercials in far-off China. The DM reported that Andrew's Pitch @the Palace , an initiative to encourage inventions or innovation or something had him taking a cut of any successful ventures...🤔

Anyway, Diana's money gave William and Harry options. In the end William decided to stay the course but Harry used his to marry an unsuitable (to royal life) woman and then to bail.

Although the York sisters have now settled into marriage, they must have really envied that. I imagine their life growing up between Feckless Fergie and Arrogant Andy was one long squabble about money.

by Anonymousreply 109September 8, 2022 12:34 PM

Im not a fashion expert by any means, but are your pants supposed to be this long, and your shirt bunched up above your pants like a cock with extra foreskin?

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by Anonymousreply 110September 8, 2022 10:39 PM

Yes, R110.

by Anonymousreply 111September 9, 2022 8:55 AM

This couples troubles boil down to neither of them having anything interesting, amusing, or intelligent to say. So they would have been smart to keep their mouths shut and worked the Firm and their celebrity to do the good works they claim is their main focus. Oh. wait a minute....

by Anonymousreply 112September 9, 2022 9:01 AM

She got what she came for. Worldwide attention.

by Anonymousreply 113September 9, 2022 2:27 PM

Waning, wholly contemptuous attention.

by Anonymousreply 114September 9, 2022 3:25 PM

She was an awkward homely child r8. You can tell she's never been popular. That's why she's so jealous.

by Anonymousreply 115November 28, 2022 4:06 AM

She's a global laughingstock r113. I don't think that's what she wanted.

by Anonymousreply 116November 28, 2022 4:09 AM

She looked like shit at her wedding, I am still surprised with the ill fitting gown and the hair that was falling down she had to push behind her ears.

by Anonymousreply 117November 28, 2022 4:11 AM

[quote]r37 I thought my mom was the yacht girl? - Charlotte

And her mother was a stewardess/trolly dolly.

Hopefully you will be spared such indignities.

by Anonymousreply 118November 28, 2022 4:14 AM

That's not how it went at all r79. She replied she had the poster of the Levi's guy. Stop making shit up.

by Anonymousreply 119November 28, 2022 4:30 AM
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by Anonymousreply 120November 28, 2022 6:42 AM

^^First sighting of Linty Weave

by Anonymousreply 121November 28, 2022 5:50 PM

I just an article at DM of Cressida pushing her baby in a stroller with her good looking husband. She dodged a bullet.

by Anonymousreply 122November 29, 2022 1:50 AM
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