The family firm.

Having used the excuse that little Archie is too young to travel to Balmoral even though it's closer than Ibiza or Nice, Meghan jumps on a scheduled airline to fly to New York to watch a tennis match.

She's obviously not bothered about leaving him at only four months old and I bet it would have been a private jet had there not been so much negative publicity in the last few weeks.

Like Maw said upthread. I always thought the visit to Balmoral if invited was non negotiable. It's only for a few days and she's done bugger all very little for months other than enjoy herself.

Well said eazybee she married a minor royal , and has now chosen the role of celebrity not a working member of ‘the firm’ .

Meghan Markle was not a celebrity; she was an actress in a television drama barely known outside America. She is now a member of the royal family, and she is not an unworldly nineteen year old ingenue.
No one expects her to give up her old friends, but to fly to America for one tennis match is one more example of conspicuous consumerism, not to mention the waste of energy her husband likes to pontificate about. Her present status is due purely to her marriage, not her personal achievements; these she needs to create for herself. Then she can lecture us about what we should be doing, or write it on a banana.

I wish she had turned up in her pjs. Now that would have been my kinda gal! ?

Actually, if Kate wants to I think she could slob around nearly every day of the week. She only appears on an engagement every other week or so. She has staff to do everything for her so when she is not in public she has freedom of choice.

I am not criticising her. I think she is very good at her job but I certainly don't think she has a hard life nor do I feel sorry for her.

Paperbackwriter
Very true and no we don't know what goes on in other peoples lives but without a doubt the media will step in with their version.How else do they manage to sell their 'daily's.?

Pinkquartz.I wonder if Kate ever has, and chance no doubt a fine thing , days when she would just like to forget who and what she is and 'slob' around like the rest of us can'. still in our 'pyjams' feet up tv on knowing only your nearest and dearest will see you.For all that makes her life what you observe as a doddle would I want to exchange for mine.

His only daughter is Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise

Me too merlot.

Lessismore, An older, self assured, ambitious American divorcee married to a younger, self-centred, immature prince who panders to her every whim.

Yes, I think there are similarities.

His only daughter is called after a Queen Annie - Queen Anne-1702-1707
His sisters were invited to an odd occasion but then so are lots of people. (Wonder if they got to Balmoral???)

Joint family holidays in this family mean going to our house in France. Not really that much different, then they have their own separate holiday and so do we.

How is Meghan like Wallis?

What rubbish trisha Philip didn’t dump his sisters. Inviting sisters married to Germans to his wedding in 1947 ?

His mother was nursed and died in Bucking Palace. He took
his maternal grandmother’s surname.

His only daughter has his mothers Christian name.

merlotgran Way too much like Wallis for comfort! I fear for the future.

I did not say anyone on here had made racist comments. But I do think one or two of you should read something other than the Daily Mail.
Complaining that Meghan behaves like 'a celebrity' when we've had so many decades of treating some of the royals (Diana, anybody?) as exactly that, is a bit much. The woman is an actress, FFS. Celebrity has always been her job. Also to say she's 'acting as if she's an independent woman.' simply for keeping up with her pre-marriage friends- well good for her. Whyever shouldn't she? She's not locked in a cage.
As for her cutting her father out of her life - who on here knows enough to criticise her for that? We don't know what goes on in anyone's family. The behaviour anyone has seen from him so far isn't exactly promising for good familial relations though, is it? Staying out of his daughter's life till she hooks a prince and then whining that she's abandoned him is the action of an attention-seeking hanger-on, not a father.

I think there is a long list of disowned relatives in the RF. The Windsors were discarded to Paris. Philip dumped his sisters and even his name.

There's a lot on this thread about MM's family. Harry and William's isn't that squeaky clean.

The difference is that the Royal family don't disown their relatives, as Meghan Markle has tried to do. And considering she and her husband have spent recent holidays in Nice, Venice (with the Clooneys) and Ibiza, they could have spared a few days with the rest of the family in Scotland, instead of snubbing the Queen for the second year running. It is not as though they are working, although apparently both 'have an extremely busy schedule'.
This trip to America, for a tennis match strikes me as a an attempt to show 'I am an independent woman'; instead she appears a very rude one.

But they aren't ALL still coming are they paddyann?
SIL and her husband up until they had their own children in 1996
MM and Harry have their own child, maybe they want their own holiday.

I've had my inlaws every Christma s and boxing day since 1975.Sometimes they arrived on Christmas eve .That was Granny and MIL and FIL and SIL and her husband up until they had their own children in 1996 but the older members still came to me and now its only MIL left.My own parents and sister and BIL were part of the first 20 years too .Its no harddship to spend a couple of days with family ..even ones that are difficult to get on with /

Of course they do M0nica but it is usually a joint decision about where and when. Not GGil insisting everyone must come to them every summer and every Christmas (Yawn)

Trisher, I would if I could. Unfortunately, she died in 1932, when DMiL was 16. My DC and DGC came on holiday with us this year and DDiL knew and loved my DF, in the few years she knew him. We have phtos of him cradling his great grand daughter

Lots of families go on holiday across the generations.

Only mention on this thread has been of a grandfather not seeing his grandson.

No one is responsible for the actions of others but certainly responsible for their own actions.

Should I hang my head in shame because a g g g grandmother’s sister was deported for theft ?

I had an uncle who was an alcoholic too.

Oh the shame , even worse a g uncle who was physician to the Queen , her father and her grandmother.

For what it's worth I think Meghan is not helping nothing to do with race.

I do find the expression " play the race card" rather unfortunate.

Wonder how many GNers spent the summer with their Great Granny in law? Thought not!
There's a lot on this thread about MM's family. Harry and William's isn't that squeaky clean. Divorces all over the place, uncle who is friends with a people trafficker. Great uncle and Great granddad who mixed with Nazis. Aunty with a drink problem.