Meghan

paddyann, I recommend the documentary on the late Princess Margaret. Most illuminating.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bk8x7x

Paddyann, such hate from you, chilling .

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We had 4 of our 5 Children before we married?????

Not sure we would have bothered to wed if not for the tax man, legalities and our extremely caring (and persuasive) vicar!!!!

GrannyGravy. we are fallen women ?

I don't enjoy scandalmongering by the red-tops and what I have learnt about it has been mostly from this thread, but can't help thinking about the visceral hatred of the then Duchess of York (soon to be Queen Elizabeth) for Wallis Simpson on the run-up to the abdication of Edward VIII. Luckily a throne is not at stake in this present spat.

anno, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

The media has made something out of nothing. The first planning application for Frogmore Cottage went in around the time of their wedding, so it’s always been the plan for the Sussexes to live there. They are in a two bedroom house at the moment, so no room for any help with the baby when they carry out official duties. I’m not a Royalist, but the spiteful articles about Meghan are horrible and mostly based on supposition.

Paddyann, your post was full of hatred. Yes millions do need bigger homes etc by why should that stop two people who want to move to a bigger home from moving. The current property has two bedrooms, baby on the way and mum coming to stay so I think even you can do the math and see more space is needed. And as I said does it really matter.

Well that’s my life ruined then.

William and Kate spent the first few years of parenthood at Anmer Hall . At least Harry and Meghan will be nearer to London for official stuff.

Well it’s all over the papers .... so it must be true!!!
The British paps do it all the time ...
They built her up put her on a pedestal.. now they’ll knock her down ...

For goodness sake do people expect brothers in their mid-30s to live next door to each other for life? It sounds as though there is a disgruntled staff member selling stories

In any case William and Kate spent several years in Norfolk away from the publicity glare of London while their kids were very young and we didn't get stories about William and Harry "falling out".

I really don't understand what the issue is about Harry and Meghan choosing to establish their own family home

The only thing I can say is, who cares. Certainly not me.

take with a pinch of salt .
Happily they are both individuals , different personalities married to brothers with very different personalities and responsibilities .
I wish them all a happy life ..I wouldn't want to live in a goldfish bowl , permanently on show .

I think this story is rubbish. They were in a 2 bed apartment and when you had shedloads of vacant houses surely anyone would move once they start a family.

What papers is it 'all over'? None of those I've been reading. Hello magazine, perhaps?

mrsmopp - WHO CARES? I'm with the others here who don't.

The country is tearing itself apart over Brexit and could harm its economy for a very long time and you worry about whether the younger Royals get on with each other.

To keep things in their proper perspective, the younger Royals hating each other will hardly impact on your life but the next move in the Brexit saga could mean that everyone is poorer.

Perhaps the D of C doesn't want to be a feminist, not everyone does, so why the venom?! Perhaps she likes being dependent on her husband and his family, nothing wrong in that surely! These two ladies are very different people, neither one is right or wrong just different, as are most of us.
I must admit that I don't know anyone, however fond, wanting to live next door to each other!! so nothing very odd about at I'd have thought.

This is womens mag, Mills and Boon and does not warrant a place in the 'Daily's. A case of chalk and cheese where a woman of substance who comes from ,to put it mildly, a rather outspoken?? family is joined through matrimony to another woman who had a loving and stable upbringing .

I agree niggly, impossible to compare the life styles of the two women, Kate did as so many did, met someone in university, then a romance, she did have a job in London but was hounded by the press, wisely she then worked for the family firm.

Megan, led a different life, married, left her husband to move to Canada, divorced, was then in another relationship which ended when she met harry and three weeks later they went off to Africa for a holiday, perhaps they had seperate rooms, I don’t know or care .

I wish both families health and happiness.

Who hand on heart on this forum has never had the odd "spat" with a family member?

Who would like to live cheek by jowl with their Brother and Sister in law? Not me that's for sure.

Isn't it bad enough that they live every day with the knowledge that the minutiae of their lives is being scrutinised. Without gossip columnists turning the screw?

I think some of the papers have just been waiting to weave a new line of 'news' and gossip to fill their pages after Meghan and Harry's wedding. They are making something out of nothing - it is all from probably unreliable 'sources' exaggerating tiny incidents put across as if they were true. For instance I think it's quite funny that Meghan apparently asked for air fresheners to be sprayed in St George's Chapel before the wedding. It's no big deal either way, but is being covered as if it was a major insult to 'our royals'. Whatever we think of the royal family, it is horrible how the public are now being manipulated to dislike Meghan. That report could have read 'Bride brings breath of fresh air to fusty chapel' but it didn't.... I sometimes read the comments under articles about this kind of thing in the online Daily Mail and I increasingly find many of them abusive. Some are downright racist and I wonder if this is what the anti-Meghan angle is all about..... But there is a general theme of dragging people down - showing 'celebs' in unflattering photos with headlines like 'X flaunts her post-baby curves' (when she obviously wasn't) - a really snide, mocking mixed message here.

While we're at it. How about Prince Philip? Gave up his job in the Navy to marry a princess whom he knew would be Queen. Not only a MAN without a job but his wife, in her role as Queen, supports him.
Kate had 3 jobs and a university education, before marrying William.
Meghan had jobs AND a marriage AND was much older when she married Harry. One cannot equate the two women. Obviously, I don't know her but her apparent dictatorial attitude seems to have rubbed off on Harry and that is from several sources who are unlikely to be in cahoots.

It’s all newspaper gossip at the moment. Let’s not get drawn into this until there is some firm evidence.