[...] They were also under an incessant barrage of negative attacks on Meghan mostly, from the tabloids and other media, including social media; being compared unfavourably to Kate, laughed at for all errors and constantly having her past dragged up, sometimes with a great deal of imagination used.
After the Australasian tour in October 2018 the attacks intensified and the RF left them alone to cope, through Meghan's pregnancy and the birth of her first child. She dealt with it while living in a foreign country and living a completely new way of life that many British people would struggle with.[...]
With all due respect, so was Kate. Heck, Kate even got it worse considering the paparazzi were literally shoving their cameras in front of her face on her 25th birthday.[...]
Sadly, scrutiny and unfair negative (and often untrue) coverages come in parcel with being known public figure. Politicians get it (remember the back and fort during US election between Trump v Clinton?), celebrities got it (how many had killed themselves because they couldn't handle "what people said"). And royals are tiptoeing between those two categories. Maxima, Letizia, and don't forget Marie v Mary, hell even Masako withdraw from public eyes (and those women are accomplished, experienced and smart women before they joined royal family). BRF is not the only one.
Okay, Harry should know, after all Sophie, Camilla, and Catherine went through it. But perhaps he didn't aware how bad it can be, I don't think he followed royal female gossip because he's too young and, later on, busy in the army. As for Meghan, either she's underestimating or misinformed, I don't think she's ever checked any royal forums. And their relationship timeline (from blind date to having baby) certainly doesn't help. What Sophie, Camilla, and Catherine got in a time span of 10 years, she got it in 3 years (give or take) so for her it surely felt more intense (let just say the first three ladies had time to "warm up" to face media's attacks).
I'm not saying that the attacks are justified and they just need to "deal with it" nor I agree with their "walk out". Back to celebrity analogy and since Meghan was an actress, she should have known the repercussion if an actor suddenly declared she quits from an on-going/airing tv programme because she felt that she got unfair bad review from film critics or social media and none of her co-star nor director did a press conference for her defence, on top of it she blamed the scriptwriter for giving her bad lines, her co-stars can't match her acting, and the director didn't direct her properly.
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Speaking out about getting CEOs to boycott Facebook because of a specific issue is giving his opinion on what should be done to reform social media. In this case, Facebook. He's inserting himself personally on one side of an issue instead of just raising awareness that there's a problem with Facebook/social media. The same thing with standing up and proselytizing about ecological and protective travel on one hand and on the other hand, be shown to *not* be practicing what he preaches kind of blows the whole thing totally out of the water and he's not taken too seriously at all.[...]
I'm sorry, but isn't it basically what William does with his United for Wildlife and wildlife traficking which end with several airlines and shipping company bosses signing an agreement to tackle it? Or Charles with his climate change concern? To be fair, both also had been criticised for it initially. Similar to Harry's private jetting, William got the headline with his annual hunting.
But I agree, he should start small first, in his case, veteran mental health and once their "foundation" is established, they can move from there. With Covid, he'll have time, considering everything is basically on pause. I only point Harry because Meghan seems to be consistent with women empowerment related stuff.
I'm in the opinion that Harry and Meghan mean well. It's just they're like a fresh graduate univ student from a privilige families who were catered their whole life, but typical fresh graduate, they have their own ideal vision and ambition to change the world for the better. And typical growth of such fresh graduate, sometimes they need to stumble (even fall) and make mistakes to knock down their arrogance and to learn that there's something called "compromise".
They way Trudeau welcomed them back in November and the Sun's leak rumour, perhaps at that time the "arrangement" for them to divide time between UK-Canada was being discussed (the way Joachim's "move" to France), but their hasty announcement put any possibility of "subtle move" to the bin and all went to disarray. I think this is Harry's and Meghan's biggest mistake as of know and I hope they learnt from it (that patience is virtue). People who run has more possibilities to stumble and fall, so why don't you start to walk, Harry? Your grandmother said "small steps can make a world of difference" right?
And in the name of "Stop Hate" in social media, why don't we start from this forum? They're just starting, so give them chance, they'll still in the "trial and error" stage.
I'm in agreement with many of the recent posts. What are Meghan and Harry actually doing these days? I listened to Harry's virtual opening remarks at the recent Travelyst virtual symposium. How is promoting echo travel in our covid laden world of lockdowns and border closures working out? One of their sponsors Bookings.com is struggling financially as is the entire travel industry. It all seemed great before covid. Ok, so that's not working out.
I also felt a bit of Meghan in that... thing, because I doubt we can call it an article. But honestly, Meghan or not, intern or not, pre-marriage Harry never sounded so righteous, moralizing and conceited and no matter who wrote it, he's claiming it as his.
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