[jet]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

Impossible to comment on someone's marriage. It could look perfect to friends and family but behind closed doors its a very different story.

Does Meghan strike you as being someone who would suffer in siilence?

[jet]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

Im not surprised...people are getting a bit tired of their self centred self pity story.

Yep, the perennial victims.

[Rustic bauble]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I don’t follow the Royals very much but early on they were interviewed together and dubbed the fab 4, they set up a charity together, Megs attended Wimbledon with Kate, there wasn’t any tense body language between the couples at all, fast forward to that final service they attended and it was clear there was tension, so I would say if there were tensions in the early days they were well hidden

I would imagine Kate and Meghan were chalk and cheese. They did seem to get along at first probably with them both making an effort. However, they seem so different. Meghan, an actress from LA strong headed and probably a bit demanding...Kate extremely polite and respectful. Didnt Meghan go to Wimbledon with a friend last year and no one was allowed to sit in the seats around her?...its little things like that, the diva like behaviour that didnt sit right with the GBP and most likely William and Kate. Then there were issues leading up to the Royal wedding, with demands and behaviour that I think just created a bigger rift.

[Ammi]

...but she did ‘suffer in silence’ for over 30 years in that she hasn’t lived out her private life in full publicity so far as I’m aware...Until the media chose a different story for her because she was now their ‘Royal property’...

[Candy Annie Cane]

Originally Posted by jet

Does Meghan strike you as being someone who would suffer in siilence?

I have no idea Jet...problems in marriages are very personal. I just wouldn't take the views of friends and family as gospel and use it as a stick to beat someone.

[Rustic bauble]

Originally Posted by jet

Yep, the perennial victims.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

I have no idea Jet...problems in marriages are very personal. I just wouldn't take the views of friends and family as gospel and use it as a stick to beat someone.

Come on Annie, jet saw it in a magazine and we all know relationships and especially break ups are always handled in a fair, unbiased manner.

[Ammi]

...(...in my opinion...)...the crux of it Is that Meghan never ticked enough Royal boxes to be accepted by our Great British media and some of the general public...

[Candy Annie Cane]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...(...in my opinion...)...the crux of it Is that Meghan never ticked enough Royal boxes to be accepted by our Great British media and some of the general public...

I agree, she wasn't "Stepford wife" enough. Seen and not heard

[Livia]

How many more American divorcees will it take before the royal family learn...?

[bots]

The royal institution has a lot to answer for. It will get a clear out when the queen and charles are in the past

[jet]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Come on Annie, jet saw it in a magazine and we all know relationships and especially break ups are always handled in a fair, unbiased manner.

I didn't see it in a magazine. Their mutual friends were part of a C5 documentary, they seemed like genuine people who were hurt on Trevors behalf at Meghan ending the marriage in such a cruel way.
They said Trevor was totally blindsided and baffled, as were they.

Meghan then took up with some top chef - not sure of the timeline on that one though....

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

I agree, she wasn't "Stepford wife" enough. Seen and not heard

...yeah, I like Kate, but the way the press report her does often have quite a cringy feel for me for exactly that reason...’oh and Kate wore a pretty dress, doesn’t she look lovely and those legs and that smile...’...it has a very ‘Stepford’ feel for someone who doesn’t deserve to be reported as so ‘surface’...

...but yeah, Annie...the media and Royal brides has often seemed quite ‘obsessive’... I was reminded last night when I was watching that account of ‘Tampongate’ with Charles and Camilla...?...and while the tapes did get media coverage for sure...the media eyes were still more on Diana and what she was wearing and who she was stepping out with../..go figure...

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by jet

I didn't see it in a magazine. Their mutual friends were part of a C5 documentary, they seemed like genuine people who were hurt on Trevors behalf at Meghan ending the marriage in such a cruel way.
They said Trevor was totally blindsided and baffled, as were they.

Meghan then took up with some top chef - not sure of the timeline on that one though....

Youtube video

I'm sure a C5 documentary is a solid source of information, after all, how can a channel that relies on poverty porn and sensationalism ever be wrong?

[jet]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

I agree, she wasn't "Stepford wife" enough. Seen and not heard

Nope, thats just an easy excuse. It was her own behaviour and attitudes and the 'poor me' that turned off a lot of people. The GBP are no fools.
Just after the wedding, her popularity rating was around 85%, now it is consistently below 30%.
She was an American mixed race divorcee with a strong personality at the time of her wedding and people loved her, so the 'Stepford' wife excuse doesn't wash.

[jet]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Anyone can be a victim that suffers in silence.

You think you know this person but you don't, you know a version that's been peddled to you by media that you've handpicked to create a certain image of her. It's honestly creepy.

How do you have the time or energy to focus on some inconsequential ex-royal and hate her with every fibre of your being? It's so weird.

You're a hoot Dezzy.

[Liam-]

Meghan made the mistake of being a strong woman with her own voice and thinking while marrying into a family where they want their women silent and having children

[Ammi]

...she also had her same past at the time of her wedding so that can’t be why she’s so disliked either...

[jet]

People have learned more about her since the wedding....and as I said, her behaviour since has turned many people off.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...she also had her same past at the time of her wedding so that can’t be why she’s so disliked either...

But people are saying, and many people have said. Not sure how you get out of a checkmate like that.

[Candy Annie Cane]

Originally Posted by jet

Nope, thats just an easy excuse. It was her own behaviour and attitudes and the 'poor me' that turned off a lot of people. The GBP are no fools.
Just after the wedding, her popularity rating was around 85%, now it is consistently below 30%.
She was an American mixed race divorcee with a strong personality at the time of her wedding and people loved her, so the 'Stepford' wife excuse doesn't wash.

The GBP expects Royal wives to act a certain way. Prior to the wedding, Meghans profile and expectations of her were lower. After the wedding the comparisons to Kate started in earnest. She didn't comply to what we expect of the monarchy and her popularity plummeted.

[Candy Annie Cane]

Originally Posted by jet

Nope, thats just an easy excuse. It was her own behaviour and attitudes and the 'poor me' that turned off a lot of people. The GBP are no fools.
Just after the wedding, her popularity rating was around 85%, now it is consistently below 30%.
She was an American mixed race divorcee with a strong personality at the time of her wedding and people loved her, so the 'Stepford' wife excuse doesn't wash.

Originally Posted by jet

People have learned more about her since the wedding....and as I said, her behaviour since has turned many people off.

So you saying she was the same at the point of the wedding isn't quite right is it? Once she became a Royal,she was expected to toe the line (and be a Stepford wife), she didn't and her popularity with ardent royalists plummeted

[jet]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

The GBP expects Royal wives to act a certain way. Prior to the wedding, Meghans profile and expectations of her were lower. After the wedding the comparisons to Kate started in earnest. She didn't comply to what we expect of the monarchy and her popularity plummeted.

If that is what you believe, fair enough, but I disagree. It was not as simple as that.

[Ammi]

...there was nothing new to learn about her past since their wedding ......all there has been is an onslaught of gossip column frenzy...if anyone feels ‘turned off’ by her that’s cool and dandy, it’s a complete prerogative to feel that without any reasoning whatsoever...but it has no bearing on behaviour from Meghan...a dislike of someone always tries to find justification when it really doesn’t need to at all...obviously there is now ‘justification’, she took our ‘Arry away to foreign lands ...how very dare she have turned her face away from the hateful media....

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

But people are saying, and many people have said. Not sure how you get out of a checkmate like that.

...do you have a list of these people, can I question these people with a bright light.....