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Old Mar 18th 2021 | 10:00 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33
I don't think you have. People have said that on this thread but they're just being bitchy, She could equally well be a naive young(ish) woman shocked at the backward attitudes of her husband's family.
 
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Originally Posted by dbd33
I don't think you have. People have said that on this thread but they're just being bitchy, She could equally well be a naive young(ish) woman shocked at the backward attitudes of her husband's family.
She didn't realise she would have to curtsy for the queen until Harry reminded her. Most of the rest is conjecture. It's safe to assume Harry and Meghan discussed their future life together to some degree before they actually married. I think they'll be fine.
 
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I think they'll be fine.

I expect so but then we're the romantics here. Wrong place really, this seems to be the thread for the scathingly jealous, for those unable to believe that love conquers all.
 
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Originally Posted by dbd33
I expect so but then we're the romantics here. Wrong place really, this seems to be the thread for the scathingly jealous, for those unable to believe that love conquers all.
The bitchy people weren't content to keep it in TIO, so all we can do is pity them.
 
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Originally Posted by Boiler
Female seems to add 10 ish years to your life expectancy.

So much for equality.
But they have to put up with men for ten years more so it evens out.
 
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Originally Posted by dbd33
I expect so but then we're the romantics here. Wrong place really, this seems to be the thread for the scathingly jealous, for those unable to believe that love conquers all.
Bless.. so naive

40 isn't young(ish).. it middle age. She's not a stupid woman.. I'm sure she was made aware of what was expected of her and went into it with her eyes open! She didn't want to behave/live that way - and perhaps expected to be treated as 'special' - not the younger brothers wife with no 'standing. Perhaps still doesn't understand why she wouldn't be a princess on marrying Harry - just as she can't appear to grasp that Archie isn't entitled to be named as a Prince until his Grandfather becomes King. Jealousy? far from it, lol

I don't think she necessarily set out to entrap him, but it's certainly appears to be her belief that she deserves a better life than one of service to Britain - and is using her 'connections' and 'infamy' to create an income stream..

Such is life.



 
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Global News along with Ipsos conducted a poll.

58% agreed Megan was treated unfairly due to her race. Women and people between the ages of 18 and 34 were more likely to agree. 98% of blacks agreed.


8 in 10 said Megan and Harry made the right decision to leave.

66% say the Queen and Royals should have no formal role in Canada. Up 2% from last year and up 6% from 2016.

6 in 10 say when the Queen dies, relationship between Canada and the monarchy should end but only 53% supported a referendum on the monarchy.

8 in 10 felt the Queen did a good job in her role.


https://globalnews.ca/news/7704854/r...=%40globalnews


As demographics change in Canada over the coming decades, I could see a time where there might be a real possibility of Canada severing ties with the monarchy but I don't think it will happen in the near future.



 
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Global News along with Ipsos conducted a poll.

58% agreed Megan was treated unfairly due to her race. Women and people between the ages of 18 and 34 were more likely to agree. 98% of blacks agreed.


8 in 10 said Megan and Harry made the right decision to leave.
This makes me laugh. How can people possibly give an opinion on how she was treated, or whether or not they 'made the right decision to leave', when they don't even know these people? No one else was privy to the conversations and interaction between all parties, except the ones actually doing the conversing and interacting. Flipping obsession with the private lives of people we don't know and never will know, drives me bonkers.
 
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I haven't a clue.


Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
This makes me laugh. How can people possibly give an opinion on how she was treated, or whether or not they 'made the right decision to leave', when they don't even know these people? No one else was privy to the conversations and interaction between all parties, except the ones actually doing the conversing and interacting. Flipping obsession with the private lives of people we don't know and never will know, drives me bonkers.
 
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Originally Posted by dbd33
I don't think you have. People have said that on this thread but they're just being bitchy, She could equally well be a naive young(ish) woman shocked at the backward attitudes of her husband's family.
Her backstory (pre-Haz) evidences her penchant for social climbing. She could indeed be shocked or unimpressed with the backwardness of the royals, although she does seem to enjoy (even demand) the status that her connection with it brings.
 
Old Mar 19th 2021 | 5:01 am
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Originally Posted by Siouxie
Bless.. so naive

40 isn't young(ish).. it middle age. She's not a stupid woman.. I'm sure she was made aware of what was expected of her and went into it with her eyes open! She didn't want to behave/live that way - and perhaps expected to be treated as 'special' - not the younger brothers wife with no 'standing. Perhaps still doesn't understand why she wouldn't be a princess on marrying Harry - just as she can't appear to grasp that Archie isn't entitled to be named as a Prince until his Grandfather becomes King. Jealousy? far from it, lol

I don't think she necessarily set out to entrap him, but it's certainly appears to be her belief that she deserves a better life than one of service to Britain - and is using her 'connections' and 'infamy' to create an income stream..

Such is life.
Spot on.
 
Old Mar 19th 2021 | 5:02 am
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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
This makes me laugh. How can people possibly give an opinion on how she was treated, or whether or not they 'made the right decision to leave', when they don't even know these people? No one else was privy to the conversations and interaction between all parties, except the ones actually doing the conversing and interacting. Flipping obsession with the private lives of people we don't know and never will know, drives me bonkers.
Sky News Australia seems fairly concerned about it ! Even more concerned than over here.
 
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Global News along with Ipsos conducted a poll.

58% agreed Megan was treated unfairly due to her race. Women and people between the ages of 18 and 34 were more likely to agree. 98% of blacks agreed.


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Quelle surprise. I think her main sin (in Britain) was that she was American.
 
Old Mar 19th 2021 | 5:18 am
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Originally Posted by Siouxie
Bless.. so naive

40 isn't young(ish).. it middle age. She's not a stupid woman.. I'm sure she was made aware of what was expected of her and went into it with her eyes open! She didn't want to behave/live that way - and perhaps expected to be treated as 'special' - not the younger brothers wife with no 'standing. Perhaps still doesn't understand why she wouldn't be a princess on marrying Harry - just as she can't appear to grasp that Archie isn't entitled to be named as a Prince until his Grandfather becomes King. Jealousy? far from it, lol

I don't think she necessarily set out to entrap him, but it's certainly appears to be her belief that she deserves a better life than one of service to Britain - and is using her 'connections' and 'infamy' to create an income stream..

Such is life.
I have a wife, and an ex, who is 40. I expect they'd object to being called "middle aged". Not that I'm going to try it. .

Do you really think being a member of the royal family is a life of service to Britain? It's a job of fete opening and what not but that's no different to being in America and being a former member of the cast of Days of Our Lives; one is condemned to cutting ribbons in shopping malls in the hope of drawing a crowd. I once saw Lou Ferrigno do that in Milton Keynes. It's celebrity of a sort and, plainly, people like to see it but it's not service, the country is not better because minor royals do that.
 
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Originally Posted by Shard
Sky News Australia seems fairly concerned about it ! Even more concerned than over here.
Since Sky News Australia is a carbon copy of Fox News in the US, what it's concerned with is no concern of mine
 


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