Yeah I don’t think that scene did what it was intending to do. I understand Meghan was following the palace orders but we all saw celebrity guests who were not her close friends at the time like Oprah, Idris and the Clooneys.
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Yeah I don’t think that scene did what it was intending to do. I understand Meghan was following the palace orders but we all saw celebrity guests who were not her close friends at the time like Oprah, Idris and the Clooneys.
I think the palace knew that Oprah, Idris, and the Clooney’s weren’t going to sell stories. Maybe they thought Ashleigh might tell her mother and then Samantha would go to the media and twist things?
Also, I was shocked that Samantha has children that she didn’t raise, but then she claims she raised Meghan
I just saw an interview with Samantha and she said she never said that. She said they just did basic family stuff together like the occasional picnic and birthday parties.I think the palace knew that Oprah, Idris, and the Clooney’s weren’t going to sell stories. Maybe they thought Ashleigh might tell her mother and then Samantha would go to the media and twist things?
Also, I was shocked that Samantha has children that she didn’t raise, but then she claims she raised Meghan
She also said she wasn't in Mexico with Thomas when he was in the hospital and could not possibly have manipulated Meg's messages on his phone because she was and has always been in a wheelchair in Florida.
I liked seeing the bits about the children. Perhaps there will be more next week...
Apparently she abused and abandoned her own children, and now her whole life is selling stories to the media.
Her obsession with Meghan is sad.
Watch the Harry and Meghan show, and then tell me they weren’t victims of press bigotry — Guardian US
Before seeing the Netflix series I thought all sides were a bit silly. But the case that the duchess endured a wave of intolerance is hard to deny, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
From the last 2 paragraphs of this article.
So there was already a dark side to what the author Afua Hirsch elegantly describes in the show as “the idea that you can be born into a contractual relationship with the British media”, but upon the announcement of their engagement that agenda became white supremacist. Perhaps that sounds like overstatement, but I genuinely don’t know what else you call it, to object this strongly to a prince marrying a woman who was mixed race. Doria, Meghan’s mother, recalls: “I said to her, this is about race. You may not want to hear it, but this is what’s coming down the pike.” As Harry said in a statement, very early on, the racist undertones in the mainstream media generated and lent respectability to outright race hate on social media.
Before I watched the documentary, I felt nostalgic for a time when you didn’t have to pick a side: when you were allowed to think the whole family was a bit silly, a waste of money and headspace. But now I think that this is a conversation we have to have: is it OK to have this very dominant industry, dedicated to the maintenance of blatant but deniable bigotry? Is there a response the progressive media could have had, better than dignified neutrality? Could the BBC or the broadsheets have been more robust? How many black women have to be sacrificed on this altar, while we decide whether or not their behaviour was part of the problem?
A white lens sees Harry and Meghan as villains – through a Black one, they’ve done Britain a favour — Guardian US
The Sussexes’ marriage offered the UK a golden opportunity. Reaction to their Netflix series shows it hasn’t been taken, says writer and broadcaster Nels Abbey
Except from this article.
To many Black viewers, the key revelation was that Meghan’s Blackness (perhaps coupled with her class) was so subtle that her own mother, the heart-melting Doria Ragland, didn’t consider it a necessity to arm her with the racial survival kit (ie “the talk”).
Subtle as it may have been, Meghan’s Blackness was apparently still too much for Britain. A woman who was light-skinned enough to successfully “pass” through her first 37 years of life in the land of the one-drop rule, fell in love with a prince from the land of “We’re nowhere near as racist as the Americans”, and you could have been forgiven for thinking Meghan was a member of a gangsta rap group. To counter this perception in the documentary, they went as far as showing that Meghan did not grow up on the set of Menace II Society.
Long before a nanosecond of the documentary had been seen by anyone, and therefore long before it could name its Goliath, much of Britain’s media had agreed that Harry & Meghan was a poisonous, “one-sided” freak show intent on tearing down the royal family. Plot twist: it turned out that much of the British media was the actual Goliath, and the royal family was what Harry was trying to protect and liberate.
Fake outrage. Meghan was "disrespecting" British culture by doing a "mock" curtsy when in actuality she was performing the American cotillion version, likely learned from her ballet training.
Also, I wasn't aware in terms of etiquette and diplomacy, particularly since America fought a war to be rid of British rule; it was historically considered fealty to the crown if Americans curtsy or bowed to British nobility. Of course times have changed and we consider it more out of respect, but Americans are not subjects to the British crown, and the US Constitution (Article I, section 9, clause 8) bans deference by Americans towards titles of nobility or monarchy.
Also, I wasn't aware in terms of etiquette and diplomacy, particularly since America fought a war to be rid of British rule; it was historically considered fealty to the crown if Americans curtsy or bowed to British nobility. Of course times have changed and we consider it more out of respect, but Americans are not subjects to the British crown, and the US Constitution (Article I, section 9, clause 8) bans deference by Americans towards titles of nobility or monarchy.
Preach. Curtsying is gross IMO. We Americans literally won a war for independence and one of the prizes was not having to curtesy. It’s classist and outdated to me.
I’d have no problem showing respect but you wouldn’t catch me bowing to anyone whose main accomplishment was being born or married to the right people. Give me a break.
I’d have no problem showing respect but you wouldn’t catch me bowing to anyone whose main accomplishment was being born or married to the right people. Give me a break.