THAT dress.

Please , this may be the last personal choice Megan has , she'll be hidebound by rules and protocol soon enough . I hope she DID get a bargain ,but if she didn't , she or Harry probably paid for it and thought it was beautiful .
I'd hate her to be witch hunted as Diana was for choices which as yet she is untrained . I can't see Harry standing by and letting anyone get away with it as Charles did with his mother. Harry I feel would be likely to turn his back on royal life rather than let his lady suffer . So for me , leave well alone, she looked beautiful and he looks happy .Their life, their personal choice , while they still have a little freedom and personal choice .

Harry like Andrew can live a different life , all the perks but no responsibility

Did she actually buy the dress, many designers loan them just for the publicity ...

A PR disaster.

I read that the dress was bought privately ( ie not loaned) and I also think it was bad judgement to wear something so expensive for the official photos. She’s a very pretty woman and surely would look just as lovely in something much much cheaper! It just smacks of bad taste in that situation, can’t imagine what her wedding dress will cost if that’s what she spent on the engagement photo dress! Maybe it will have feathers and a see through bodice too, that’ll get us talking!!

Even minor so called celebrities are given or lent clothing, shoes, handbags etc. so that the designer gets exposure via the media. It comes out of the advertising budget.
I think the choice of dress was ill advised myself. No idea what it looks like without the hands over the breasts but see through comes across as tacky. I do so hope Harry has made the right choice as he has been through a lot, but in my bones I feel it won't last.

Like you kitty I have a 'feeling' based mainly on my view that Harry doesn't look like a man ready for marriage - looks like an eternal batchelor to me.

I have two completely contradictory and irreconcilable views on this.
I dislike excessive consumption but I prefer rich people to spend their money than hoard it.
As long as everyone involved in the creation of the dress is properly paid I have less problem with this than the super rich buying diamond encrusted rocking horses for their children as I saw on a programme recently.
I liked her in Suits and she has read a very interesting (if privileged) life, including working as an intern at the Argentinian Embassy. I am not a royalist but I think Harry and Megan are the best of them.
She will have the eyes of the world on her and it is understandable. She doesn't seem like an overly extravagant person generally.

I think Megan looked lovely and she is beautiful. I really feel there is some unpleasant comments on here. Also as Mothers and Fathers how would you feel if someone said your daughter was not beautiful, plain ect, remarks like these are not necessary.

I doubt Megan's parents read this forum ?

No dress is worth that amount of money. My lovely grandmother was a dressmaker and so I'm always mindful that whatever something is made of and whoever made it it can only be worth a certain amount in monetary terms. There are massive divides in who has what both here and abroad which personally I don't think will ever change, life seems to always have been that way. It doesn't make it right. I think they make a lovely couple and wish them well. It's the season of goodwill and I just hope those who have very little will be looked after by someone good especially at this time.

AnniebachYou are correct. That was a bitchy thing to say about Americans. How ignorant of you .

I thought the photographs were pleasant but unremarkable. Why criticise just Miss Markle?
Never forget that Harry is the son of a publicity -mad mother, who never knowingly missed a photo opportunity.

Day6.
The dress was inappropriate for that particular occasion, didn't know it was the Oscar awards, which appeared to be a snowy landscape and the wearer must have been bl***y freezing .Apart from that it showed lack of taste. .You can take the person 'out of showbiz' but can you take' showbiz out of the person'?
I am surprised the marriage of a divorced person will be in church and the service itself carried out by the Archbishop of Canterbury ?This is hypocritical and an insult to many couples, a member of my own family included, who were denied a church ceremony due to one of the couple having been divorced.
This will be nothing more than a show biz affair. What ever was her majesty as the head of the C of E thinking about. Bless the marriage but not carry out the full works.

Jakima1108Just trying to figure out the prejudice against Americans on these boards. Why would they live the pics anymore than Brits living the pics? People are peoplein case no one told you? Harry is a Brit.. she’s an American. Why wouldn’t the Brits like the pics as well? You make no sense.

Love not live the pics

The vitriol the nasty bitter comments I can’t believe what I m reading I never in a million years thought I d be defending a royal they aren’t my cup of tea but no young couple deserve this amount of abuse I m throughly ashamed to read these comments
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion and the rich royals are a big dividing point in the nation I m not too much in favour myself ( can take em or leave em) but to aim such personal nastiness when no one knows this couple is truly shaming

And a lot of you complain about the nastiness on FB it’s moderatly tame to some of these comments

I don't think we should worry about Ms Markle not being trained for the role.
She oozes self confidence and out talked Harry at the engagement interview, he was like an amateur in comparison.
She will live her own life.
She looks very pleased with herself in every photograph I have seen.
I do wish them well though as I would every young couple starting life together.

I think Harry and Megan love the publicity and know the use of the camera as did Diana.

the church accepts marriage of divorcees now. Do you know Megan was responsible for the breakup of her first marriage?

I believe it was her own money.......which she earned. Still an obscene price to pay for a dress however. To put this in perspective brings to mind those members of society who WON'T WORK and expect me to pay for them through taxes I pay on money I have worked for, even though I'm retired! So good luck to her if she can afford it.

Can I just ask.... If Megan Markle was your daughter, or granddaughter, and she had just become engaged to be married, how would you feel about reading some of the comments about her that have been written on here? Would you feel upset and hurt and angry on her behalf to know that her choice of dress, looks and her private earned income was being criticised and held up for public scrutiny? It would break my heart.

Abuse, bluebelle? Where? Plenty of criticisms, I agree, but criticism isn't abuse.

Public scrutiny comes with the job, chew. Just a fact of life.

Meghan doesnt come from a rich titled family She's worked hard to be the person she is...and assumptions are just being made...she may have been "loaned" the dress - like most people are for the Oscars etc

Agree wholeheartedly. Whether she earned the money or not, this is unacceptable conspicuous consumption in a time of austerity and difficulty for many people.

She should offer to contribute an equal amount next May to any charity in the UK (where she will soon be a British citizen) which helps young families who through no fault of their own are struggling to cope. That would do something to repair the damage. I was glad to hear of the engagement. But this has tarnished her image for me.