THAT dress.

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.

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

Love not live the pics

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I doubt Megan's parents read this forum ?

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 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.

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.

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.

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!!

A PR disaster.

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

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

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 .

For a daily dose of bile and vitriol, look no further than Gransnet.

Another great 'humanitarian' done up like a dog's dinner in a small fortune. They certainly know how to lavish money on themselves. I think she is so false...but time will tell.

There is not dress in the world worth anything like that money, shame on her for promoting such a idea.

I bet the Americans are lapping it up and loving the photos!

Maryeliza we have no idea just how much money the Royal Family give towards charities, including those for the homeless.

um, my DC had wedding photos taken, very nice ones too.
But we do have our own professional photographers en famille so to speak. As did the Royal Family, not sure about now of course.

Why wouldn't a young couple , any young couple want to celebrate their engagement with pictures ?

I presume they paid to have them taken or the service was offered for free. Some people might enjoy seeing them. You plainly don't Maryeliza but just because you don't enjoy it doesn't mean no one else can .

The price of those photos would not save the NHS , improve benefits or reduce global warming .

So it is what they do, you are carping about them having photographs taken, I didn't like them but didn't see it as as a two fingers up to the homeless

Christmas came into this because again it is awesome display of money spending is it not, should no one spend more for food over Christmas than the rest of the year because there are people who cannot afford to? Did you not say of the woman spending several thousands pounds on presents it was her money?

I care deeply about the homeless and those living in poverty but I do not have a problem with people who are wealthy , you do.

Oh don’t be ridiculous ab who has engagement photos these days except entitled idiots? Who said about getting married in secret ( if only). How did Christmas come into this? Those photos were just so stupidly over the top, completely divorced from real life, self indulgent claptrap - it could have been done if it needed to be done in a much more low key way rather than this oh look at us no one has ever been in love like us way.