Meghan's Baby Shower.

I think baby showers are lovely. A good girls' get-together of celebration and joy. What's not to like?

I agree about the private plane though.

I’m just surprised that she is flying so late in her pregnancy.

All a bit over the top and showy for me. I have tried to give her the benefit of the doubt, as the press give her a hard time, but this hasn't helped her image. Although we do have Baby Showers over here, they seem to be far bigger in the states. Brits never like this sort of excess, especially in the current climate. Perhaps that is was held over the pond, rather than here.

One of Meghan's friends at the baby shower is quoted as saying this about the regifting of the flowers:

'It just speaks to who she is. She's kind, she's very generous. And a really, really sweet person.'

Now I am getting How can this be considered "kind" and "very generous"?

It's like that stupid writing on the bananas that was considered "empowering" for the sex workers who received them.

I'm speechless! (and that's unusual )

ginny you can fly up to 37 weeks providing you're fit and healthy------but alas who's to know while sealed in pressure and at 35,000 feet ?

Luckily no-one had to deliver the baby mid flight as happens in disaster movies. Now that would have been a story to tell.

I too think Baby showers are an awful import I m glad they weren’t around when I had babies and thankfully none of my children had them hopefully the grandkids won’t either

I think Meghan is making it perfectly clear that the royal advisers can go hang because she's going to do what she wants regardless of how the public might react.

Nothing wrong with having a baby shower - even if Amal Clooney hogs the limelight by making sure everyone knows she paid for it. Donating flowers to charity rather than have them wasted is a lovely idea so why not do it in this country? It would have been a great chance to merge American excess with British restraint.

Self indulgence is a big mistake and hypocrisy an even bigger one.

Apparently the flowers were pale pink and gold!
A little girl with golden hair! At some American Baby Showers they cut into a cake to reveal a pink or blue sponge inside. I don't think they did that. Meghan will never be a Windsor (too, too dull) so let her be a Celebrity, I say. Wasn't Princess Margaret a lover of the high life?

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I imagine Kate had baby showers.

Possibly not though; they are a very American thing and unfortunately has crept over to Australia too.

Do many British people go in for this kind of thing?

Wasn't Princess Margaret a lover of the high life?

That was decades ago. I had hoped we'd moved on since then!

She's rich. Her friends are rich. This type of event goes with her life style, surely she is entitled to some private life?

I think that the RF, although privately wealthy, do not flaunt their wealth.
Being ostentatious is not their style.

That’s the difference Jalima , the royals are wealthy but their private celebrations are private

Agreed Telly, but she is now in a completely different position in life.
How can she be taken seriously stirring a casserole with survivors of Grenfell one minute and be on a half million spend fest the next?

I saw Princess Anne recently. I may be wrong, but she was wearing a suit which she had worn many times previously. (very understated)

Jalima1108 Princess Anne even got married the 2nd time wearing something she'd been photographed in before. Kate recycles clothes and shoes too, I'm pleased to see. Meghan has a lot to learn and seems too arrogant to learn it. I hope I'm wrong.

I read that she stayed in the most expensive hotel in New York, something like £50,000. Now that really is excessive if true!

That means security would have checked the hotel.

I’d like to hear what the Queen thinks of this tacky extravagance......while she huddles in front of her 2 bar electric fire! I believe Meghan was told it was not done to have baby showers in the royal family.....where present giving is a very low key affair. Just shows how grasping and cheap she is at heart......

I think it is obscene the amount of money being spent on this baby shower. It makes a complete joke of their “charity work”. Think of the good all that wasted money could have done for prem babies, cancer research etc
My blood is boiling ?!!!

I just wish the media and general public would leave her alone. She is a member of the royal family and a former actress. She will have celebrity friends. Let her get on with her life.

I'm sure all of the royal family spend obscene amounts on things they want to do.
They're rich, so they live like rich people.

Shock horror - independently wealthy American woman flies to America to see her friends who give her gifts for her baby. Really!!! I suppose she could have flown with easyjet or Ryanair, stayed in a B&B and receive gifts bought at Primark - but that still wouldn't have stopped the detractors. Her trip has had absolutely no impact on my life, nor I suspect the lives of anyone else.