Here we go again, a new Diana

Diana had an eating disorder before she married a Windsor,

Really radicalgran you know that she "loves slumming". As I recall she doesn't come from a privileged background, she has been involved in charity work for many years (before she met Harry), and yet because she fell in love with a man from a privileged background you feel is it OK to denigrate what she does. I agree with others, let's give her a chance

The negative comments here are diappointing: she didn’t HAVE to visit these unfortunate people and if the media were told it would all develop into a three-ring circus. Then I dare say people would say she was doing it for the publicity!

How do you know about these visits, Anniebach?

It was discussed in the newspaper reviews last night Merlot, so must be in the press today.

Well said Iam64 and shame on the sneering, miserable old biddies who can’t wait to twist the knife.

I'm not denigrating what Megan is doing, it must come from her heart.
But I thought from the start of the romance that because Harry is so open about his love for his mother, he would want to marry someone who is similar to her. Many men do that.

Some truly unpleasant comments.
Possibly a resident who was visited released the news.

Just for the record, I'm not jealous at all. It just all seems rather patronising to me.

She has done this kind of thing for years. It is one of the things that they have in common.
Some people have decided not to like her whatever she does. She didn't publicise it.

Diana didn’t win all the hearts of the country!

Here we go again. We are all entitled to our opinions and in this country are lucky enough to be able to voice them. But it is the sheer nastiness that is such a disappointment. I feel ashamed to be a woman some times.

Oh dear,do some people comment on here just to stir things up? Surely some of these comments aren’t how people really feel. Gransnet? Whose Grans are they and I hope they aren’t passing on any of those unkind, sarcastic, cynical views to their grandchildren.

I know very little about the woman but if she is trying to behave in a kind & compassionate way then good on her!
Anything that brings the plight of these people to the public's attention can only be a good thing. Still in B&B after so many months with thousands of empty properties sitting empty in London owned by foreign millionaires waiting for the market to increase so they can sell them for even more profits. It is scandalous. I know a Thai man who has been living in 'friends' properties all over London for 4 years now. I have seen photos of the places he stays in & they are sumptuous. He moves on when he gets fed up with them & fancies a change. He owns 3 houses himself too which he lets. The government should slap CPOs on any property empty &not on market for 6 months immediately.
Leave the woman alone & give her a chance- maybe she will be less inhibited than our own Royals ( for whom I have great respect) & do some real good.

Honestly??????

Why do so many of you want to suck up to people who you will never know and who really are just leeches?

We have seen Kate's t*ts in the foreign tabloids and pretty well all of this one on the screen, they are the same as us (well when we were younger) they do not care more, dress better, or love their kids any differently.

We feed them and their desire to lord it over other people by turning up and applauding how they spend our money.

Where is your self respect ladies?

I think they all stink, time for a republic and less adoration for people in power. Look at the OXFAM scandal, every bloody scandal in fact, they have their roots in the same beliefs that some people are more worthy than others, some are unassailable whatever they do........we perpetuate that system when we make such a fuss over 'celebs' and royals.

As least Meghan isn't being called Waity Meghan like poor Kate. She's getting on with her life

Nasty, nasty, nasty post radicalgran get a grip.

I personally don’t give a toss about the royals but I’d certainly never be so vindictive.

I can't take your post seriously radicalnan, perhaps you say these things just to get a reaction.

Meghan Markle is not a Mother Theresa or a Princess Diana. One wonders if the palace were aware of these 'secret visits? this I doubt as the press would have been informed.She needs to learn ,regardless of her compassion for the unfortunate ,that she is but for the 'joining in marriage' a member of the royal family and poses a security risk. Beautiful, compassionate but spare us another Diana pleeeease?

We feed them and their desire to lord it over other people by turning up and applauding how they spend our money.

How do you know they have a desire to lord it over others. They did not choose this role - they were born into it. It gives them lots of financial and other privileges; and they lose a great deal in terms of privacy and being able to lead anything vaguely resembling a normal life.

It was not their choice - they found themselves in this situation and are (most of them) doing what has been asked of them. And some are doing more - e.g. these visits to former Grenfell Tower dwellers. Who knows but these people are happy to know that folk in high places have not forgotten them?

I am not a royalist - but we have a monarchy and I acdcept that at this moment.

Good for her.

A very rich royal would be a great comfort to me if I'd lost everything in a fire. Just a few words, perhaps a hug and off she trots back to her immensely privileged life. Yeah, very uplifting
As Meghan came from humble beginnings and has worked her way to being a rich woman in her own right it doesn't mean she has forgotten where she came from. She has shown compassion and campaigned for women's rights for years long before she met Harry.

Some Grenfell residents may feel like that but I am sure others would feel uplifted by her visit and her undoubted warmth.

She wasn't born with a silver spoon and I think she's very brave to jump into the goldfish bowl that is the Royal Family.
I do hope she knows what she's letting herself in for because whatever she does, however hard she tries in future, there will always be the detractors waiting on the sidelines.

radicalgran so because we want someone to be given a chance to prove themselves, a person who has supported charities for years we are "sucking up". I don't know this young woman personally (and I think you probably don't) so let's just give her a chance instead of pouring scorn on anything she does just because of who she is marrying.

Diana had an eating disorder before she married a Windsor

And marrying into that family ( a man who clearly didn’t love her) will have done so much to help that.....not .