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What’s true though, “we ain’t seen nothing yet,” Meghan is only getting started. She’s only given us a small sample of what she’s bringing to the “Firm.”
To be pregnant for the first time and having to cope with the anxieties that most or all women who are in this situation face...concern for the health of your unborn child, growing physical discomfort as your body changes, and of course the very natural fear of labor and childbirth itself...add to this the challenge of adjusting to married life in one of the most visible families on Earth..added to the expectation that you will quickly learn Royal protocol and have not only your appearance but your marriage and every public utterance dissected in print and online...now add in the fact that since you are one of the handful of minority women who have married into European Royalty, millions have projected their own personal fantasies and expectations onto you as a "role model". So by God you better measure up!
Now, let's add the cherry to the top of the sundae. A seemingly out of control father and half siblings intent on either embarrassing you and/or putting you in your place for wanting to distance yourself from dysfunction and betrayal.
I really feel for Meghan Duchess of Sussex. This is technically still her honeymoon in what should be the happiest period of her life. I wonder if, in those fleeting moments just before dropping off to sleep does she have any regrets?
Andrew Morton is a real snake oil salesman as we say in my part of the world. I don't trust anything that comes out of his mouth.
We all have access to Meghan's speeches, writings, interviews and social media content from the time she was a teenager. When has she ever said that she wanted to be Diana 2.0? As far as I am aware, Andrew Morton coined this phrase to sell his book.
I'll have to look it up but I believe he stated it in his biography of Meghan with reference to her seeing videos of Diana in the coach on her wedding day in her childhood and dreaming of being a 'princess' like her. I think I remember that was the context. Certainly Meghan has never said anything like that on her own account.
On the other hand Morton's Telegraph article does show a happy, enthusiastic and very active woman. So at least that's a change from all the awful Duchess Difficult, Duchess Overbearing articles that proliferated over the last few months.
Shouldn't the expectations of her life be what she expects of herself and not what the rest of the world expects of her? She should live up to her own standards first and foremost before even thinking what the world wants of her.....who comes first in her life, Meghan or the world? And that goes for each of us also.
I hadn't thought about how Meghan's disgustingly rude health had robbed the media of unceasingly unctuous columns and columns of commentary on the dreadful toll pregnancy was taking on Meghan's health. Neither had I considered that the deafening silence from BP, CH and KP the subject of Meghan's father would be worthy of comment, after all, the BRF have never, as a rule, 'explained themselves' to the world before. Why should now be any different?Catherine Bennet said:. . . . . seconds after identifying Meghan as breath of fresh air, decided she was also a hardened manipulatrix, cruel to her poor stalker of a daddy, with a way of being pregnant that really pisses off newsroom executives.
Had a good chuckle over your last sentence. I wonder if all that yoga and a healthy eating lifestyle has helped Meghan during her pregnancy.
I strongly believe that for Meghan's sake, getting rid of *toxin relationships* be they family or friends is the very best thing she can do for herself first and and foremost and for her marriage and child.......there is a book I hold dearly to my life called Learning to Love Yourself that taught me that and it made a world of difference in how I deal with people who have betrayed and abused me, no one needs nor should have this type of abuse that Meghan is going through with her toxic family and the media. I got rid of toxin relationships at great expense to me emotionally and mentally and it helped me survive to this day.........Meghan has Harry and you do not want to mess with Harry when it comes to Meghan and their child as we know how strong and protective he is of her and the baby. Emotions and memories play havoc in our hearts and minds and it is never easy to just walk away and not look back yet it can be done for peace of mind and sanity.......
A piece from the Guardian on Meghan's treatment by the media.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...le-has-become-a-national-sport-that-shames-us
If this OTT negativity and biased atmosphere against Meghan continues unabated, at some point, I would not be surprised if the Sussexes decided to decamp to a remote location, possibly in Africa.
The general public are not so easily fooled these days by media stories. They know to take sensational stories with a grain of salt. Especially in the UK where they have lived with rubbish stories for such a long time that turn out to be false and made up.
I myself am not convinced this letter from Meghan to her Dad is real. I just don't believe she wrote it.
And I deserve the right to have that view.
T.
I don't think something like this would ever happen. It would create even more negativity as Harry goes against everything his family stands for and shirks his duty to crown and country and Meghan "made him do it". It would make matters much, much worse than they already are. It would mean that the bullies have won and the Sussex family caved to it. They pretty much have a private life already away from prying eyes exactly where they are right now.
Meghan is a strong woman and very comfortable in her own skin. A woman like this never caves to negativity or reacts to it in public. I'm sure all of this, especially with her father, is deeply upsetting but with a strong support system in Harry and his family, she'll get through this just fine and focus on her newborn child and her royal role where she can actually make a difference for the positive.
From the samples I've seen shown, the handwriting is very much Meghan's. She's got beautiful penmanship. Of course, the bits and pieces shown were to highlight her father's complaints and whines but I do definitely believe that the letter was written by Meghan.
but why write to him? Given that he is erratic, it would probably be better to pick up the phone. I suppose he might not have talked to her, but It would be safer than writing him a letter he has now publicised..True, and Meghan obviously had to be aware of the possibility that her father would publicly share the letter, so I would think she was careful of what she wrote, while still genuinely doing her best to pour our her heart to her father, letting him know she truly cared and wanted to find a way to keep him in her life.
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One of the most level commentaries I have read and the author has a truly wonderful grasp of the English language.
(...)Originally Posted by Catherine Bennet, Observer Columnist for the Guardian
. . . . . seconds after identifying Meghan as breath of fresh air, decided she was also a hardened manipulatrix, cruel to her poor stalker of a daddy, with a way of being pregnant that really pisses off newsroom executives.
Within months of her marriage, with zero contribution from their victim, sections of the UK press had identified Meghan as someone of whom virtually anything malicious might be said, regardless of accuracy, public interest and its potential impact on her health. Neither her advancing pregnancy nor one attempted correction has brought any respite.
Morgan is sympathetic, instead, to the emotionally abusive man who, with the unstinting support of the British press, has committed to destroying Meghan’s pleasure in her wedding, her pregnancy and, by the sound of it, her forthcoming motherhood – “her poor father”.
Whatever privacy concessions Meghan Markle was willing (however inexplicably) to make in exchange for royal privileges, she could not, reasonably, have anticipated these sustained personal attacks, for which the sole justification is – ludicrously – that they originate in a man who should ideally be rewarded with a restraining order. Would any of this, it is increasingly asked, given the indulgence extended to most royal hangers-on, have happened if Meghan were not, to use her term, biracial?
but why write to him? Given that he is erratic, it would probably be better to pick up the phone. I suppose he might not have talked to her, but It would be safer than writing him a letter he has now publicised..
I think that before the wedding he was quiet and did not use his relationship with her to get media interest..but she didn't AFAIK try to visit him before her marriage.. when surely that would be the right time to talk to him and advise him that he would have to be very discreet from now on, if he didn't want to hurt her image.
That's exactly what I am thinking. An additional thought: we all admire women like the "Dowagers of old", like the Dowager Countess of Grantham or other ladies with a spine of steel. Queen Mom comes to mind. They were all born with certain character traits but it is what they had to go through in life that made them: forged in fire and ice.I don't think something like this would ever happen. It would create even more negativity as Harry goes against everything his family stands for and shirks his duty to crown and country and Meghan "made him do it". It would make matters much, much worse than they already are. It would mean that the bullies have won and the Sussex family caved to it. They pretty much have a private life already away from prying eyes exactly where they are right now.
Meghan is a strong woman and very comfortable in her own skin. A woman like this never caves to negativity or reacts to it in public. I'm sure all of this, especially with her father, is deeply upsetting but with a strong support system in Harry and his family, she'll get through this just fine and focus on her newborn child and her royal role where she can actually make a difference for the positive.