[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

[Twosugars]

Lol
The waxworks will continue to be displayed

“From today, Meghan and Harry’s figures will no longer appear in our Royal Family set.

“As two of our most popular and well-loved figures they will of course remain an important feature at Madame Tussauds London as we watch to see what the next chapter holds for the them.”

Said the general manager of Madame Tussauds

[Crimson Dynamo]

Put them next to posh and becks

[Tom4784]

Let's face it, if Kate and Will did the same thing they would not have had the vitriolic reception that Meghan has had (let's be real, Meghan is the problem for these people).

If Meghan was white, she would never have gotten the hate she gets from these people.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Do people really see her as a black women, i dont think people even know as they see her dad in the paper a lot and he is white?

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Do people really see her as a black women, i dont think people even know as they see her dad in the paper a lot and he is white?

No Not Black, at all.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Do people really see her as a black women, i dont think people even know as they see her dad in the paper a lot and he is white?

Originally Posted by arista

No Not Black, at all.

[The Slim Reaper]

2 white guys deciding a black woman isn't either black or black enough is peak tibb.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

2 white guys deciding a black woman isn't either black or black enough is peak tibb.

In the relatively not far past there was a way to describe a person of mixed race but now that word or words have fallen from favour so we now are stuck with no real descriptor

[arista]

[armand.kay]

we

[arista]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

we

Clever Photo edits

[Crimson Dynamo]

Harry and Meghan’s bombshell announcement is a discourtesy to the Queen – and smacks of millennial self-absorption

If the Sussexes had bothered to show up at Sandringham for Christmas with the
rest of the family, witnessing the pressures that the stoical, snowy monarch was
under might have inclined them to think again. But Harry, Meghan and eight-
month-old Archie were too busy on their six-week “holiday” in Canada,
meditating on their own grievances. Funny, isn’t it, how global humanitarians
can find it so hard to spot problems nearer to home?



To add insult to injury, the pair went on to preach that they would start “to
carve out a progressive new role within this institution”. What does that
imply about William and Kate, to whom Harry was once so close? Do the the
ultra-woke Sussexes think the Cambridges are not “progressive” as they go
about their boring old duty of supporting the Queen and keeping their political
opinions to themselves?

Instead, they have acted with a breathtaking self-centredness,
announcing their decision to the public first and clearly hoping to bounce the
monarch into accepting their “progressive” new role, which keeps the perks
of Royalty while shirking its duties.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-fa...-queen-smacks/

[Crimson Dynamo]

look how fraught and drawn the Queen looked today



Meanwhile Meghans mum is out laughing it up with her dogs



shocking

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

look how fraught and drawn the Queen looked today




Meanwhile Meghans mum is out laughing it up with her dogs



shocking

The Queen's been through worse stuff , i'm sure she'll get over it

Where in that pic is Meghan's mum "LAUGHING"?? , once again another invention of your imagination .

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

we

[Kazanne]

I have never seen her as a 'black' or 'mixed race woman she is just Megan a person like any other, I do hope that the press are not coming from the racist angle, surely it's more to do with how they feel about her as a person , maybe they know her better than we do , I don't think the reason some see her negatively is her race ,but they maybe feel she is taking Harry away from his roots, but Harry is old enough to know what he wants and if he wants to move away from royalty he should, but they cant have the 'perks' it brings surely.

[arista]

[Liam-]

*angry people spend years abusing woman telling her she has no place in the royal family, possibly because she’s black, possibly because she’s American, gets told to leave our lovely, innocent, pure white English Prince alone and go back to being a low-rent Hollywood actress*

*husband of said woman decides to put his family ahead of his genetic role to protect them from said, possibly racist abuse, one of the first men in his genetic line to actually be loyal and committed to his family*

*said angry people get angrier because said woman is actually doing the very thing they’ve been telling her to do, with unprecedented abuse, for years, because she’s ‘disrespected’ the old white lady*

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Liam-

*angry people spend years abusing woman telling her she has no place in the royal family, possibly because she’s black, possibly because she’s American, gets told to leave our lovely, innocent, pure white English Prince alone and go back to being a low-rent Hollywood actress*

*husband of said woman decides to put his family ahead of his genetic role to protect them from said, possibly racist abuse, one of the first men in his genetic line to actually be loyal and committed to his family*

*said angry people get angrier because said woman is actually doing the very thing they’ve been telling her to do, with unprecedented abuse, for years, because she’s ‘disrespected’ the old white lady*

Love how they made bigots fuming

On the other hand there is a constructive and supportive editorial in the Guardian

[Twosugars]

The Guardian view on Harry and Meghan: good instinct and courageous action
Editorial
The Sussexes should not try to have it both ways, but their departure does themselves and the monarchy a favour

After what even the Queen has admitted was a bumpy year in 2019, the House of Windsor has begun the new one by driving into a huge pothole. The background to the decision of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to “step back” from their roles as senior members of the royal family is confused. Their wish for a “progressive new role” and to become financially independent tries to have it both ways – with continuing financial support from the family and the retention of their titles – and makes no sense. People will wish them well. But the damage to the institution cannot be denied.

On the personal level, only the hardest of hearts will not hope the Sussexes can make it work. All will wish that they will be happier in these new arrangements than they have been recently. In family crises such as these it is often hard, and sometimes impossible, to know where the balance of responsibilities lies, though this will not stop some frenzied attempts to play the blame game. Doubtless there is plenty of blame to go round.

Yet no news organisation should dismiss one of the most clearly stated reasons for this dramatic decision – the fears of Prince Harry and Meghan that the British press has them under siege to a degree that threatens to do to them what it did to Diana, Princess of Wales. The collective turn against the Sussexes by much of the media since they made their announcement illustrates precisely where part of the problem lies. It does not help that Britain has just elected a government led by a journalist who made stories up and whose manifesto gives the press a free pass to continue the abuses and techniques that led to the Leveson inquiry.

The bottom line for the British monarchy as a public institution is that this is a major blow. The blow is stronger for coming so soon after Prince Andrew’s disgrace in the Jeffrey Epstein affair drove him to the sidelines too. It leaves the institution more open to emotional criticism than at any time since the Prince of Wales’s divorce and the death of Diana, more than 20 years ago. The monarchy itself may not be at risk this week, as it was in 1936 and some argued it was in 1997. But the fragility of the royal house is now more palpable than ever, as the ageing of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh signals the imminence of a period of change at the top.

Tolstoy observed that all unhappy families are unhappy in different ways. A breach of some kind could have happened in any family, royal or not. But the breach between the Sussexes and the House of Windsor resonates with implications that transcend those who are directly involved. It is an uncomfortable sign that the Windsors have not, as has been claimed, recovered their post-Diana poise. In other circumstances, the monarchy would risk being characterised as not fit for purpose.

Part of this centres on the uniquely hapless role of “the spare”. The only role of the younger sibling of the heir to the throne is to remain alive in case the call comes – as it did to Prince Albert, later George VI, in 1936. Prince Harry, like Prince Andrew and Princess Margaret before him, has struggled with this fate. If he was not to become another ageing royal sybarite, the issue needed to be forced. This week Harry and Meghan have done just that. His solution is not fully worked out yet. But the instinct was right and the action was courageous.

All this has arisen not because of personalities but because the Windsors have not thought properly about downsizing. It is absurd that, beyond the sovereign and the heir, young royals are not told to find paid jobs, or trained to do so. In other monarchies, most of which remain popular, such career paths are entirely normal. Only in Britain is such infantile mystique attached to the crown. By their awkward rebellion against our antiquated form of monarchy, the Sussexes have done themselves – and maybe the monarchy itself – a favour.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...rageous-action

[The Slim Reaper]

Couple tell brother and SIL they're expecting, on the day of their cousins wedding doesn't really sound that bad to me

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Couple tell brother and SIL they're expecting, on the day of their cousins wedding doesn't really sound that bad to me

it does not but one would have to be very niave to think that if the people involved were who they actually were

its a very big deal

and

it was

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

it does not but one would have to be very niave to think that if the people involved were who they actually were

its a very big deal

and

it was

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Couple tell brother and SIL they're expecting, on the day of their cousins wedding doesn't really sound that bad to me

Same.
Dont get the fuss.
You get together at a happy occasion and you cant wait to share more good news