Duchess of Sussex the bullying has to stop.

I signed nothing Dickens. Thanks for the heads ⬆️

silverlining48

I just opened the Times 18 things clip and didn’t have to pay. Well I hope I didn’t .
Read first two nuggets of MM thoughts and decided watching the plasterer repair the kitchen wall was more interesting.
Maybe she isn’t like most of us ....

I'll have another go. Sometimes they generously allow you to read something for free. I just got the box to sign up and couldn't get past it!

You won't have to pay if you didn't sign up - did you? I know you get x number of articles free, but don't know what happens after that as I dislike having to keep giving my details online which seems to generate more spam mail.

I've signed up to The Spectator for my 'right-wing' news. It's kind of more 'in depth' and interesting. Can't afford more.

Dickens

Boz

thought you would be interested in this story from The Times

18 (more) things we have learnt about Meghan. Keep up!

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c60d6738-27d5-11ed-a830-74a6c8fbb722?shareToken=0f1d50f88d1f455ec5c4484b629d56fc

If that message is addressed to me (one never knows when one isn't named):

(a) it's behind a paywall and I don't subscribe to TT so can't...

... (b) "keep up". An admonishment that always brings out the rebellious school-girl in me anyway.

Partly because I deliberately don't "keep up" on the antics or otherwise of a couple who hold only a minor interest to me. Though I am interested in the 'politics' and 'culture' surrounding the media's obsession with them.

Have a good day, Moses, Boses, or Boz. BTW, how are The Sketches going?

I can't take credit for the "keep up". Part of the Times Article Headline. Not directed at anyone!

I have no opinion of her I don’t know her and am sure she is just like most of us, but with more money and good bone structure. Oh and a Prince for a husband.

It's been very hard trying my mean look and I needed a good laugh, silverlining, thank you!

I saw the photo and wondered what the two green things protruding from her head were.

I just opened the Times 18 things clip and didn’t have to pay. Well I hope I didn’t .
Read first two nuggets of MM thoughts and decided watching the plasterer repair the kitchen wall was more interesting.
Maybe she isn’t like most of us ....

Boz

thought you would be interested in this story from The Times

18 (more) things we have learnt about Meghan. Keep up!

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c60d6738-27d5-11ed-a830-74a6c8fbb722?shareToken=0f1d50f88d1f455ec5c4484b629d56fc

If that message is addressed to me (one never knows when one isn't named):

(a) it's behind a paywall and I don't subscribe to TT so can't...

... (b) "keep up". An admonishment that always brings out the rebellious school-girl in me anyway.

Partly because I deliberately don't "keep up" on the antics or otherwise of a couple who hold only a minor interest to me. Though I am interested in the 'politics' and 'culture' surrounding the media's obsession with them.

Have a good day, Moses, Boses, or Boz. BTW, how are The Sketches going?

The only things I know about MM are what I read on GN. I don’t read it all as she has been much discussed there since the marriage.
I neither read articles nor see headlines, not sure why or how I can have missed them ( but I have). Maybe I really should get out more.
Fact is the more people join in with this the longer it will go on.
I have no opinion of her I don’t know her and am sure she is just like most of us, but with more money and good bone structure. Oh and a Prince fir a husband.

Glorianny

I think that picture is pretty great. It takes guts to have your hair slicked down, wear a black sweater and stare straight at the camera. She has great bone structure. I don't think she looks scary. I think she looks challenging. But god forbid women should do anything but smile at the camera and look happy. People might start to think of them as competent, clever human beings, and then where would we be.

So, if you smile, does that mean you're neither clever nor competent?

Oh dear ?

Practising
???????? Oops!

I think that picture is pretty great. It takes guts to have your hair slicked down, wear a black sweater and stare straight at the camera. She has great bone structure. I don't think she looks scary. I think she looks challenging. But god forbid women should do anything but smile at the camera and look happy. People might start to think of them as competent, clever human beings, and then where would we be.

thought you would be interested in this story from The Times

18 (more) things we have learnt about Meghan. Keep up!

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c60d6738-27d5-11ed-a830-74a6c8fbb722?shareToken=0f1d50f88d1f455ec5c4484b629d56fc

eazybee

I don’t read the articles but see the headlines, the poor couple must be seriously damaged by the constant attention and criticism they are receiving

When Meghan releases an interview carefully timed to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of her mother-in-law's death, she can scarcely complain about the attention and criticism they receive.

I don’t read the articles but see the headlines, the poor couple must be seriously damaged by the constant attention and criticism they are receiving

It's the constant attention that is the problem.

Criticism for what she says is one thing, but it seems that not one single day goes by without the tabloids publishing yet another article about her. If there's a lull in her activities, old stories are rehashed and dredged up again and again.

Just the other day, Amanda Platell of the DM was feeling sorry for poor Harry who it appears has been emasculated by the "minor actress" and wanted to know what the men who served alongside him in Afghanistan would think about his presumed subservient role.

Seriously, this is just muck-raking isn't it?

I know damned all about the couple's relationship, but this idea that Harry is some kind of poor sop who's been entranced by a Jezebel and therefore has no agency nor autonomy is pure speculative spite. Their public persona, brand, image, call it whatever is not necessarily the true dynamic between the couple.

Are M&H really so newsworthy - that important to the lives of the average citizen? Does the Queen even agonise as much as the media over her grandson? Everyone wants to defend the poor woman who's been so ill-used - perhaps at her grand age she's more philosophical, heaving another sigh of resignation as she turns yet another page of the tabloids to find yet another article about the couple.

I'm not defending the couple, I don't admire them, I'm not that interested in their role as celebrities furthering their causes - but I am interested in why the media just won't simply give it a rest, as they say.

I can only assume it's click-bait. It increases the circulation figures which will attract more advertising revenue. And so it will continue. Until the tabloids can find another person / persons / issue that engenders more interest.

But I'm pretty sure the response to this comment - if any at all - will be the usual, "well, she brought it upon herself". Well, yes - she did... but for how much longer are we going to focus on this? Perhaps ignoring the couple altogether might be an option and would certainly solve the problem of her much talked about "attention seeking".

I don’t read the articles but see the headlines, the poor couple must be seriously damaged by the constant attention and criticism they are receiving

When Meghan releases an interview carefully timed to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of her mother-in-law's death, she can scarcely complain about the attention and criticism they receive.

BlueBalou

Apparently Meghan has given an interview stating it ‘…takes a lot to forgive…’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62717696
I’m afraid that for me it doesn’t come across well but I can’t put my finger on why.
I think she’s disingenuous.

You left out the, "The duchess responded: "I think forgiveness is really important. It takes a lot more energy to not forgive." Do you not think that you might make you look disingenuous too?

Apparently Meghan has given an interview stating it ‘…takes a lot to forgive…’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62717696
I’m afraid that for me it doesn’t come across well but I can’t put my finger on why.
I think she’s disingenuous.

She looks ok to me, good bone structure. Maybe she just didn’t feel like a soppy camera smile ?

annsixty

I agree, she looks very mean and scary, not a good or positive look in my opinion.
She can look so much more attractive and approachable.

It’s not a woman’s job to look attractive and approachable

You'd be so pretty if you smiled dear! Nobody likes a sourpuss!!

She is! She's got a lovely face. ?

It's very posed.

Callistemon21

"Meghan, can you scrape your hair back and glare at the camera, darling, that's right, mean, scary, show them how you can scare them all".........

Sorry but I really don't think that's her at all.

You'd be so pretty if you smiled dear! Nobody likes a sourpuss!!

Interesting posts on here ?

I’ve sent a few PMs on my interpretation of the magazine cover thing…

I think she looks like a woman with ambition, staring out at the world in a way that dares detractors to say something.

It is very fitting since she is doing publicity for her podcast that discusses labels of women. Especially since her first podcast is about women with ambition.

I would kill for those earrings TBH.

I am not a fan of Meghan Markle. IMHO, she is not a nice person. She started a smear campaign against the Royal Family and will tell all sorts of lies to tarnish their reputation.
So very glad that my mixed race daughter is not like her.

volver

VioletSky

Dickens

Which of course leads to the topic of the entire episode, how women are treated when they are ambitious. And the worst offenders? Other women.

This. Absolutely this.

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Callistemon21

I like the picture on the left. They've persuaded her to look mean, sorry.

Love it! She looks fierce and great.