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Duchess of Sussex the bullying has to stop.

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Sago Fri 26-Aug-22 13:11:11

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.

I’m not a fan but enough is enough surely!

Callistemon21 Fri 02-Sept-22 23:21:30

Glorianny

tickingbird

Glorianny It’s out there so take the time to look. She has consistently lied. Only the other day she claimed a South African actor from The Lion King told her the people took to the streets in celebration when she married Harry in the same way they did when Nelson Mandela was finally released after decades of imprisonment. Now that is definitely unsubstantiated!

There are quite a few you tube films of people at celebrations in SA for their wedding
www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1663307/Meghan-Markle-wedding-Prince-Harry-South-Africa-Nelson-Mandela-vn

Lots of people here turned out for the Royal wedding and even more watched it on screen.
Lots of people enjoyed it tremendously around the world.

Showing one rather over-emotional woman dressed in her best watching on on a screen with a few others in SA is not proof of anything at all.

icanhandthemback Fri 02-Sept-22 23:16:31

Lucca

Just came back to this and genuinely horrified nobody else seems at all
Bothered by Heath comment this morning which was rude personal and xenophobic regardless of your opinion of Meghan. I’m very disillusioned

The message has been deleted. I was horrified too but could tell that Heath would be unlikely to retract the statement so left it to Admin to decide whether it was xenophobic or not.

welbeck Fri 02-Sept-22 21:16:24

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc739gFWS1o

this explains how podcast viewing figures may be massaged.

MerylStreep Fri 02-Sept-22 20:40:35

Glorrianny
I hardly think a few people watching a large screen in a pub constitutes dancing in the street
You linked to the Express article, perhaps you could link the YouTube videos,

Lesley60 Fri 02-Sept-22 20:35:37

I think the way they behave courting publicity and chasing money they deserve everything they get, and lose their titles, see who wants them then

Callistemon21 Fri 02-Sept-22 20:25:16

Treat it with the contempt it deserves

Best ignored really, Lucca

MawtheMerrier Fri 02-Sept-22 19:30:12

Maybe , but.....
The encounter she describes did not happen

Glorianny Fri 02-Sept-22 19:16:17

tickingbird

Glorianny It’s out there so take the time to look. She has consistently lied. Only the other day she claimed a South African actor from The Lion King told her the people took to the streets in celebration when she married Harry in the same way they did when Nelson Mandela was finally released after decades of imprisonment. Now that is definitely unsubstantiated!

There are quite a few you tube films of people at celebrations in SA for their wedding
www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1663307/Meghan-Markle-wedding-Prince-Harry-South-Africa-Nelson-Mandela-vn

Dickens Fri 02-Sept-22 18:59:44

Lucca

Just came back to this and genuinely horrified nobody else seems at all
Bothered by Heath comment this morning which was rude personal and xenophobic regardless of your opinion of Meghan. I’m very disillusioned

Lucca

Treat it with the contempt it deserves.

The comment along with "get a life", "get over it", "grow up" - they are all from the same stable. Thoughtless, insensitive, boorish - purely intended to put you down.

... and then the mocking when you take the comment personally - as you were meant to do.

The poster waded in, rudely put down another member with a churlish and personal attack, then used the same uncouth rhetoric to ridicule you for challenging her.

... and is, of course, now "bored" by it all and is going to immediately depart to another site where such inconsiderate posting is - apparently - better tolerated!

As you say, if she only knew... some of us do Lucca, and her post speaks volumes. But not about you. So I hope no one reports it.

tickingbird Fri 02-Sept-22 18:29:37

Glorianny

I won’t be responding to anymore as I’m watching Andy Murray in the US Open. It’s a good match.

tickingbird Fri 02-Sept-22 18:27:43

Glorianny It’s out there so take the time to look. She has consistently lied. Only the other day she claimed a South African actor from The Lion King told her the people took to the streets in celebration when she married Harry in the same way they did when Nelson Mandela was finally released after decades of imprisonment. Now that is definitely unsubstantiated!

Callistemon21 Fri 02-Sept-22 18:14:11

Lucca

Just came back to this and genuinely horrified nobody else seems at all
Bothered by Heath comment this morning which was rude personal and xenophobic regardless of your opinion of Meghan. I’m very disillusioned

Yes, it was shocking and if that is typical of a visitor from Mumsnet I realise why I steer clear.

Glorianny Fri 02-Sept-22 17:01:35

tickingbird

Glorianny

It isn’t unsubstantiated though. It’s well documented. However, you seem to set great store by Meghan’s version of events even though she’s a proven liar. Most odd.

You haven't provided any details, names or links tickingbird i is therefore unsubstantiated gossip.
If by well documented you mean there us a lot in the media well strangely enough everything in the media isn't true!

tickingbird Fri 02-Sept-22 16:38:05

Glorianny

It isn’t unsubstantiated though. It’s well documented. However, you seem to set great store by Meghan’s version of events even though she’s a proven liar. Most odd.

Norah Fri 02-Sept-22 16:23:02

Living her own life, providing for herself, career.

Not middle class, no career, just marrying for money.

All a guess, naturally.

Smileless2012 Fri 02-Sept-22 16:21:48

But Kate isn't an actress.

MawtheMerrier Fri 02-Sept-22 16:20:58

Kate met her future husband at St Andrew’s- also just like me. (Only we thought of it first!)

FannyCornforth Fri 02-Sept-22 16:18:41

Kate studied Art History, just like me

JaneJudge Fri 02-Sept-22 16:14:14

in her acting career?

Smileless2012 Fri 02-Sept-22 16:12:30

That wouldn't apply to Kate though would it. Where has Meghan done better than Kate?

FannyCornforth Fri 02-Sept-22 16:11:51

Sorry.
I thought that I was being so clever with my emoji placement.
That was to heath, sorry, whatever
Anyway, I’ve had an extremely challenging day
I’m just waiting for my moussaka to heat up, and I’ll be away

Lucca Fri 02-Sept-22 16:06:42

Oh the old you need more in your life comment. If you knew…

FannyCornforth Fri 02-Sept-22 16:06:21

?

Glorianny Fri 02-Sept-22 16:06:19

tickingbird

JaneJudge
I agree with your last post Glorianny. Women have been told to be quiet and dignified for sooooooo long now, we are allowed to be loud and brash and whatever bloody else, even if people don't like us for doing so. Misogyny is alive and well

Does that include bullying other women and reducing them to tears? Meghan has history regarding that particular trait and it goes way back before she became a Duchess. Attempting to deflect by stating she’s some kind of trailblazer because she’s ‘black’ is nonsense.

She uses people to get what she wants then drops them. The female writer that did the interview for The Cut magazine didn’t exactly write a sympathetic article. I think she saw through madam Sussex.

Could you post some evidence of this tickingbird or is it like much of what is written about Meghan pure he said/she said unsubstantiated gossip. I seem to remember her being accused of reducing Kate to tears and then Meghan saying she was made to cry.
Of course women who have some success are always castigated by people (particularly other women) they met and did better than.

JaneJudge Fri 02-Sept-22 16:05:50

There is only one dramatic person here grin