So true! U don't get the donor egg thing because she was young enough to have children! The children have the majority of their Dad's features but you can see her features in them especially with Archie! Their children are beautiful!
Harry and Meghan Appreciation Thread
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It's lovely to see their love through their eyes and all the wonderful videos and pictures.
I felt so bad for Meghan's niece Ashleigh not getting invited to the wedding because of her mother Samantha Markle. I hope Meghan and Ashleigh still have a strong relationship. Sad to see how the fall out with her dad unraveled. They seemed so close!
Doria, what a lovely woman! She has such a pleasant voice and gentle spirit. Love how she classily called out Thomas for selling Meghan out. The lies Thomas Markle and Samantha has been able to spread in the media did really impact how people viewed Meghan pre wedding to Harry.
I was glad to see Harry talk and not shy away about his past racism. But he also shows that you can change, you can take accountability for your mistakes, you can grow and evolve and become a good, solid person when you decide to do the work and I think he really did.
They did a great job of establishing the social, political, historical and cultural context around them. I loved that they addressed the role of the UK and its royal families in slavery and colonialism.
The way they explained what 'royal houses' are and how their communication team work with the British media though these "royal experts" was brilliant! So necessary! Because most people don't know.
H&M have come such a long way. Two people from two completely different backgrounds who are also similar in many ways. They've been so much noise around them that many people have forgotten they're human beings! One moment I liked was Harry pointing out that Meghan gave up everything to marry him and how he ended doing the same thing for her. I’m excited to see where this documentary goes next week.
I felt so bad for Meghan's niece Ashleigh not getting invited to the wedding because of her mother Samantha Markle. I hope Meghan and Ashleigh still have a strong relationship. Sad to see how the fall out with her dad unraveled. They seemed so close!
Doria, what a lovely woman! She has such a pleasant voice and gentle spirit. Love how she classily called out Thomas for selling Meghan out. The lies Thomas Markle and Samantha has been able to spread in the media did really impact how people viewed Meghan pre wedding to Harry.
I was glad to see Harry talk and not shy away about his past racism. But he also shows that you can change, you can take accountability for your mistakes, you can grow and evolve and become a good, solid person when you decide to do the work and I think he really did.
They did a great job of establishing the social, political, historical and cultural context around them. I loved that they addressed the role of the UK and its royal families in slavery and colonialism.
The way they explained what 'royal houses' are and how their communication team work with the British media though these "royal experts" was brilliant! So necessary! Because most people don't know.
H&M have come such a long way. Two people from two completely different backgrounds who are also similar in many ways. They've been so much noise around them that many people have forgotten they're human beings! One moment I liked was Harry pointing out that Meghan gave up everything to marry him and how he ended doing the same thing for her. I’m excited to see where this documentary goes next week.
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Love the photos with the children, thank you for posting them!
Wow, the first episode had me in legit tears. I loved seeing the beginning of their love story and her friends confirming she had a full, happy life before Harry. The photos really show it so I don't believe she knew much about him before they met outside of him being Prince Harry/Princess Diana's son. Truthfully, I only became interested in TRF once they started dating. It was so cute and millennial how they met on Instagram.
I was really happy to hear from Doria and see their trip back to Meghan's childhood home and school. I've read so many things about how Doria didn't raise Meghan, she was in and out of jail, etc. so it was nice to see it confirmed that she, in fact, raised her child (unlike Samantha) and the media wanted Doria's family to be the drama but they wouldn't betray her. I kind of wish to hear more from Doria - like what she REALLY thought of her daughter marrying into this family; her first impressions of Charles, William, Camilla, etc. I really felt Doria when she said she didn't raise Meghan to think about her race and upon reflection she wishes she would have. I am sure because of how her daughter looked and living in LA, she was going to be protected from the harshness of race in the ways Doria herself wasn't. In some ways, shielding Meghan from the burdens and limiting beliefs of race may have helped her develop confidence to know she can do anything; even to feel worthy of a British prince. There was a cost to it in the form of naivety that the world will perceive you as something other than black, especially when marrying into royalty.
I also appreciated how Meghan acknowledged her father and admitted she was a daddy's girl. To me that shows she is honest and it must have really hurt her deeply for him betray her trust. I was really hoping she would touch more on the circumstances surrounding that fall-out before the wedding because it allowed the media to really run amok with the notion she was a social climber who ditches her friends/family for fame. Similarly, with Ashley, it wasn't necessarily clear how she wasn't invited to the wedding because of her mother. I thought only Doria was there. Maybe this is confirmation that some of Doria's relatives were actually at the wedding and Meghan was too vulnerable to trust her father's side bc of how Samantha and he were acting. Either way, I hope she and Ashley are still close.
Overall, I thought it was very tame and not critical at all about TRF. In fact, it kind of humanized Charles and especially William as a young boy loosing his mother too. The trailer billed as them telling their story so I assumed it was going to be more like reality TV showing their lives, emotions, decision-making in real-time and less of a documentary feel. They seemed self-censoring and measured in their testimonials, and we did not glean a whole lot into the build-up of what led to them stepping down as senior royals. Maybe I am asking too much, lol, but I hope to see some Oprah-interview-style realness dropped in the coming episodes.
I was really happy to hear from Doria and see their trip back to Meghan's childhood home and school. I've read so many things about how Doria didn't raise Meghan, she was in and out of jail, etc. so it was nice to see it confirmed that she, in fact, raised her child (unlike Samantha) and the media wanted Doria's family to be the drama but they wouldn't betray her. I kind of wish to hear more from Doria - like what she REALLY thought of her daughter marrying into this family; her first impressions of Charles, William, Camilla, etc. I really felt Doria when she said she didn't raise Meghan to think about her race and upon reflection she wishes she would have. I am sure because of how her daughter looked and living in LA, she was going to be protected from the harshness of race in the ways Doria herself wasn't. In some ways, shielding Meghan from the burdens and limiting beliefs of race may have helped her develop confidence to know she can do anything; even to feel worthy of a British prince. There was a cost to it in the form of naivety that the world will perceive you as something other than black, especially when marrying into royalty.
I also appreciated how Meghan acknowledged her father and admitted she was a daddy's girl. To me that shows she is honest and it must have really hurt her deeply for him betray her trust. I was really hoping she would touch more on the circumstances surrounding that fall-out before the wedding because it allowed the media to really run amok with the notion she was a social climber who ditches her friends/family for fame. Similarly, with Ashley, it wasn't necessarily clear how she wasn't invited to the wedding because of her mother. I thought only Doria was there. Maybe this is confirmation that some of Doria's relatives were actually at the wedding and Meghan was too vulnerable to trust her father's side bc of how Samantha and he were acting. Either way, I hope she and Ashley are still close.
Overall, I thought it was very tame and not critical at all about TRF. In fact, it kind of humanized Charles and especially William as a young boy loosing his mother too. The trailer billed as them telling their story so I assumed it was going to be more like reality TV showing their lives, emotions, decision-making in real-time and less of a documentary feel. They seemed self-censoring and measured in their testimonials, and we did not glean a whole lot into the build-up of what led to them stepping down as senior royals. Maybe I am asking too much, lol, but I hope to see some Oprah-interview-style realness dropped in the coming episodes.
I agree they look a lot like Meghan to me! Their biggest contention that Meghan used donor eggs is that Archie and Lili are redheads. Perhaps they need to go back to biology 101 because Meghan carries the recessive red hair allele due to her paternal grandfather, father, and half-brother having red hair.
Meghan's grandfather, Samantha, and brother Thomas Markle Jr.
Meghan and her dad
It’s well done. I found it a little boring honestly and was kinda disappointed there wasn’t really anything new. But it was worth the watch.
Hearing from her niece Ashleigh was really interesting. Samantha’s deranged obsession with Meghan makes a lot more sense now.
I do wish Meghan had put her foot down and insisted that Ashleigh be allowed to attend the wedding because it seems like it hurt her deeply to be excluded.
Wow, really impressed with her, Doria! Very soft spoken and articulate. Also, the Bullying on the Internet so true. If this was turned on the Bitters just for 1 day they hopefully they would stop.
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