For months now, certain sites have been monitoring Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s travel. Usually, we get a heads up from People Magazine, the Daily Mail or E! News about when Harry flies undercover to Toronto, or when Meghan flies undercover to London. But no one let me know that Meghan flew into Britain recently! Last I checked, she had to be in Toronto because she’s in the middle of filming Suits. But there she was in Ascot, England this weekend. She was watching her ginger lover Prince Harry play the Audi Polo Challenge for charity. You can see the photos here.
Prince Harry Plays Polo While Girlfriend Meghan Markle and Eddie Redmayne Cheer Him On https://t.co/Tbu0rufnuO
— People Magazine (@people) May 6, 2017
Meg wore a sleeveless Antonio Berardi dress in navy, paired with a chic white Aritzia blazer which she mostly wore draped around her shoulders. She managed to make the outfit look polo-perfect and not oddly nautical (which is how Kate would have done it, because Kate loves a seafaring theme). She watched from the sidelines as Harry played to raise money for Sentebale and WellChild.
This is a big step in their relationship, on par with being photographed together at his friend’s wedding in Jamaica. This is their first joint-appearance publicly in Britain, really. This is how Kate used to do it during the Waity Years too – she would regularly attend William’s polo matches too, plus Will and Kate were often photographed on date-nights when they were out clubbing and drinking. Basically, when you’re a royal girlfriend and your prince boyfriend invites you to watch him play polo, that’a a down payment on an engagement. I can’t wait!!!
Also: surely Meghan isn’t staying in England for the next week, in anticipation of being Harry’s date to Pippa Middleton’s wedding, right? Or is that exactly what’s happening? Hahaha, it’s funny because everyone will be talking about Meg and Harry and no one will be talking about Terribly Moderately Wealthy James and Pippa.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN, PCN.
Its GAME ON!
I can’t wait either!
I hope they have a big, official wedding with all of the European royalty and tiaras.
Please no, not on our tax payers coin. We’re already enduring austerity, and with the brexit bill being €100 billion (last figure we heard). It would be a pisstake if we had to pay for another Royal wedding when nurses are having to use foodbanks.
Let Prince Charles pay for that himself, tbh. Or just do it privately.
I don’t think we will see European royalty.
But I am hoping it will be broadcast.
The British do not do black/white tie weddings. Further it will not be a massive affair because she was already married. Civil ceremony and a blessing in a smaller church.
Also the British public are not in the mood to see money squandered on a wedding. Brexit has people’s nerves up.
Harry is very popular, and the British public and his supporters internationally will be VERY disappointed if the wedding is low key. It will also send a message that divorced/mixed race/american/actress Megan is somehow not good enough for the RF and a proper royal wedding. I thought that divorced people can now get married in Church, please correct me if I am wrong.
PrincessK, there have been divorced royals who have had Anglican ceremonies (Charles for one) but they are typically lower key. I think Charles and Camilla had a blessing at St. George’s Chapel – which is gorgeous, btw, prettier than Westminster Abbey – and Princess Anne was married for the second time in a small Scottish church.
If they marry, and I hope they do, I am sure there will be some type of church ceremony, and I am sure they will wave to the public from some coach/balcony/church steps, but it won’t be a public celebration on the level of William and Kate. Just because Harry is “popular” doesn’t mean that he will have the same type of wedding do as his brother.
@Megan – as the second son, and in a period of political and economic uncertainty, I would guess it’s unlikely they’ll get quite the splash that Kate and Wills did. And she’s divorced – I’m guessing perhaps St. George’s Chapel rather than the Abbey and all the crowned heads of Europe . . .
Even Charles couldn’t get married in church because Camilla’s husband was still living, is that not the case?
Lucy that’s a lie created by the Tumblr nuts which has already been debunked. There’s no reason a divorcee can’t have a massive wedding in Westminster Abbey or similar.
The UK no longer bans divorcees from marrying in church; it’s at the vicar’s discretion. And considering Harry’s gran is basically the vicar’s boss there’s no way in hell anyone associated with any of the major Royal wedding venues would say no. Unthinkable.
Charles and Camilla had a small wedding because they were older and because Camilla was still so loathed. Marrying the woman who caused your divorce is quite a bit different from marrying someone who just happens to be divorced. And Princess Anne comes across as a pretty private person and again is older and a more minor royal. Harry is such a huge public figure I expect he will have the full works unless for some reason he or Meghan personally have an antipathy to it.
Fluff The Queen is the titular head of the Church of England. She has absolutely no say in anything that happens in it. The current archbishop is quite liberal but among the leadership of the church there is a strong and powerful conservative wing. If Harry was allowed to marry a divorcee in Westminster it would likely cause a very public squabble. They did not have a small wedding because they were old and loathed, they had civil ceremony and a ‘blessing’ in a church, as it was seen as unbecoming for a future Defender of the Faith to be married twice in a church. They followed the pattern of Anne. The precedent has been set. If the wedding involves a divorcee, they marry in a small ceremony.
Further Princess K The monarchy does not exist to please Harry’s ‘International’ fanbase. He is a prince not a popstar. It exists to serve the people of the Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth. It would look terrible if in the coming years the royals spent huge sums of money on a wedding for the fifth in line to the throne. I quite like the monarchy and do not want it’s place jeopardized in order to please the masses.
Lucy: ” it would look wrong for monarchy to spend money on the fifth in line”……
They did it for Andrew and Margaret, both married after falling to fifth in line, and they did it for Anne in her first wedding where she was 4th in line.
Further, the church accepts remarrying divorcees, so Harry marrying MM isn’t a problem anymore. Especially when Harry, unlike Charles, isn’t destined to head up the church.
LAK They were not divorced or marrying divorcees?
Also Britain was a totally different country back then. The position of the monarchy was fully assured. In large part due to the breakdowns of all those marriages and the unscrupulous behavior of the younger royals, the monarchy is not held in such high esteem. The monarchy exists not by the grace of god, but by the grace of the media and the people. Excessive spending will lead to bad press. Add that to the fact that Britain has entered a time of major uncertainty. Add also that HM is now an elderly lady who I hope with reign for many more years but who knows? After her death there will be major debate about the monarchy. Murdoch has already said the only reason he is nice to the monarchy because he likes the Queen – he is ready to rip them once she goes. An ostentatious, unnecessarily large wedding will do no good for the monarchy. Which as I say, I care about and desire to see succeed.
How do you suggest the conservative branch of the Church of England will be placated?
As written many times before. CoE was founded by a randy king who wanted to divorce his wife and marry his mistress.
The Archbishop of Canterbury was one of the people urging Charles and Camilla to marry, so no, the Church wasn’t against it. The relationship was still a PR landmine, but the Church wanted them married not unmarried and still together. They had a civil wedding and blessing in church after. Haakon and Mette-Marit of Norway are some of the few royals who attended, likely because Charles supported Haakon in marrying the woman of his choice no matter what.
If Harry and Meghan were to get married, it would be in a church. A smaller event for economics, maybe Windsor, but in a church. Divorcees can marry in CoE with permission of the local officiant since 2002. Add to it the fact that she isn’t Anglican and her first marriage was not a big religious event. Heir to the throne of Catholic Spain married a divorcee in a big splashy Catholic wedding. 5th in line to the UK throne can marry a divorcee in an Anglican church wedding.
Complete and utter Tumblr stan nonsense.
I have a friend who works in Westminster Abbey. You really think any of them would go directly against the Queen for literally no reason?? LMAO.
The only way there will be any “public squabble” is if Meghan is denied what the British public consider a ‘standard’ Royal wedding. That would cause uproar and scandal because it would be perceived as racist. If anyone in the CoE was to raise public objection (unlikely anyone would do something so foolhardy) they’d be destroyed in the press and the public eye as being a judgemental fuddy duddy and probably accused of being racist.
Brexiteers tend to be Monarchists. If H and M want to avoid bad press there are plenty of things they could do to give the appearance of thrift while still having a public wedding in a major venue. For example a cheaper dress from a young up and coming designer. Or generally not being a profligate as W and K are. I know American stans are insistent on saying Harry and Meghan are unpopular here but it’s not true at all and the people saying it clearly know nothing about my country.
Charles and Camilla had a small wedding due to the marriage being so scandalous and unpopular as feelings for Diana still run so deep. If it was “unseemly” it’s because the marriage started as marriage-breaking infidelity. Not because both happened to be divorced. Harry played no part in Meghan’s divorce so it’s not applicable. It’s pure fanfic to pretend this sets some kind of rule. The public will not want to be cheated out of seeing “Diana’s boy” get his fairytale.
Lucy: what fluff said.
Fluff Your ‘friends’ in Westminster Abbey do not trump the constitution of the United Kingdom. Nor do the rules of said constitution come from tumblr.
Also with regard to your belief that nobody in the church will object because how they will be perceived in public; you do understand for some people conviction matters more than good PR?
How do you know monarchists tend to be Brexiteers?
It would be perceived as racist by SJWs, who in accordance with their beliefs about equality ought not to believe in monarchy anyway.
I think engagement is a done deal already.
They are wonderful together and in love.
Looking forward to the Harry , Meghan royal duo.
I am hoping for wedding 2018 Spring or Summer for these two.
She already looks like a Duchess. Harry, put that ring on her. Honestly though, she’s not just attending the polo, she’s also been entertained by Harry’s “second father”/mentor Mark Dyer and his American wife. That’s huge.
That’s what I said when I saw the picture of them together. He’s exceptionally close to Mark. If Meghan had gotten this close to them, an engagement is coming.
Except Chelsy and Cressida also entertained by Mark therefore not indicative of anything.
And attended polo matches.
Noooooooo, LAK!! Don’t ruin my fantasy!
You’re going to ruin my fantasy aren’t you.
Fantasy is good.
Phew. I like my fantasies. We should all have make believe stuff; it is fun.
For example, I see you as a very dignified woman, like a college professor, who is quite expert on the royal family and royal history, and gives lectures to various groups. And probably looks pretty good while doing it. And if you tell me I’m all wet, that’s OK; I’m sticking with my fantasy anyway!
FLYING ELVI WILL HAPPEN.
You said Brexit wouldn’t, LAK. I won’t believe you on Flying Elvi. It’s too important.
Sixer: i give you Brexit, but i still have bragging rights because i also said that politicians etc would do everything possible to resist it, lo and behold that past year since brexit.
On the fantasy/reality thing, Princess Sparkle is dead to me if she turns down the glass coach. What is the point of the thing if it’s not used?
Don’t be a Debbie Downer. Let me live for the future Duchess of Suffolk!
Bluhare gets the florals. You get the coach. I get the FLYING ELVI.
Deal?
Nah have to agree with LAK ( as I’m feeling curmudgeonly) he dated Chelsey for SIX YEARS and Cressida Bonas for two years, everybody knew about it and the public scrutiny is credited with wrecking both relationships. Maybe his rollout of Megan is to establish if she really can deal with constant public interest/interference – who knows?
NB What the eff is a flying Elvi anyone?
@frisbee Flying Elvi are the perfect accompaniment to any classy affair.
http://flyingelvi.com/?page_id=89
Frisbee: Elvi = plural of Elvis.
In the fantasy wedding procession of MM and Harry, Royal Cbers would like to see a troop of Elvis impersonators flying above it aka flying Elvi.
LAK you mean like parachuting in Flying Elivis’s like the Nic Cage film? Floating above the procession would be good also. God I’ve missed the inspired madness of Royal CBer’s on this site….
The Flying Elvi would be implemented in exchange for this not taking place at the Little Wedding Chapel in Vegas. They could parachute to either Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields at Christmas (as long as they don’t disturb the swans in the fountains), or at Windsor for a smaller event.
I am having flying Elvi. I am, I am, I am.
And that’s all there is to say about that.
They are doing their best to ruin my elegant wedding planning, frisbee. It’s not fair!!
bluhare: I’m standing with you in planning their wedding. Don’t worry. This is IT-I can feel it.
Oh I’m so sorry bluhare but, but, but, I’m really into the idea of flying Elivi (thanks to Megan and Sixer) there’s something deliciously Pythonesque about it all I find very hard to resist. They also need a honour guard made up of the Knight who say Ni while they’re at it……*scurry’s away giggling*
I am betting that they get married next spring. I think it’s serious business, and a good thing. She is game, and she is competent. I bet she’d make a good royal.
Sixer, I am with you on the Flying Elvi. Gots to have them. We are OWED after this cl*sterf*ck of a year.
The rest can be elegant and tasteful, for bluhare.
I am beginning to think that the glass coach is in drydock or something, it hasn’t been used in so long. I doubt they will be trotting it out for our sparkle duchess, but I think we should get a contingent of CBers to hijack it and join the procession. LAK and Sixer, you two are closest!
WEDDING for these two 2018, is my prediction, engagement in 2017 maybe end of year or sooner.
Who are the tumblr’s and Why do the Harry fan page Tumblr’s go so bezerk , when he gets a girlfriend? LOL.
Love the outfit. No court shoes, hopefully.
Shakespeare at the DM is calling Pippa & TMW James’ wedding a “royal wedding”. Kill me now, please.
LOL! Your comment makes me think about an old Daffy Duck cartoon when he insists that Elmer Fudd “shot me now, I demand you shot me know”, it makes me chuckle every time I think about it.
‘Duck season!’ ‘Rabbit season’ ‘Duck season’ ‘Rabbit season!’ ‘Rabbit season!’ ‘Duck season!’ ‘Shoot him, shoot him!’
No wonder the Middletons think they are royal. It’s disgusting.
I think they’re trolling the Middletons as a ‘royal wedding part deux’ is exactly how they (the Middletons) have been pitching this wedding.
But don’t you feel sorry for Carole? She has no more daughters to marry off.
@Secret squirrel
Her next mission is to find a rich woman for James.
Do we think Donna Air is allowed at Pippa’s wedding? I get the feeling Carole doesn’t quite embrace her as her son’s lady
DM had quite an article the other week describing how the Middletons had commissioned a signature Caribbean rum cocktail for the reception called a “Jam n’ Pips” ( ha) and that the Middletons and Mathews clans would be jetting off to Eden Rock in St Barts after the event to “debrief”
The DM has been working overtime to make this wedding a thing. I really do think they have paid for an exclusive and intend to get their money’s worth.
Maybe but the Editor in Chief of the Fail is a Middleton family friend who started off giving them PR advice, the Fail is their go to rag for stories about them. However, the online team tend to be mixed with regards to the family.
I think there is a publisher’s exclusive its with Hello – thats the go to mag for the aristo set for weddings etc..
They have come up with some really strange headlines in the leadup to this wedding. Kate babysitting all the kids? The horror of the in-laws not staying at Middleton Manor?
At this stage pippas wedding will be about Meghan/harry whether she’s there or not. She should have stuck with the no ring rule that we were hearing about. Nobody would have expected her and pippa might have gotten a mention for her own wedding.
As for the polo she looked gorgeous. And was beside mark dyer one of Harry’s closest confidantes.still don’t think official engagement will happen until she’s publicly done with suits. The cost of protecting her will be astronomical and I don’t want bad press for them when they’re just starting out. It’ll be bad enough going forward as the spare as is.
I agree that the wedding will be upstage by Harry and Meghan (if she is there), even Harry on his own will get more attention that the bride and her family. But considering that NO ONE was interested in the fake Royal wedding they needed something to generate press interest to get those sponsors. The ‘press release’ from KP confirming the Cambridges and Harry’s attendance wasn’t even enough.
I don’t think Megan attending a polo match means they are engaged or about to be. Harry’s other exes also attended weddings and matches. As did Kate for almost a decade with William.
Harry is not like his brother who strung Waity along for a decade before be finally proposed. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an engagement announcement in the next 6 months to a year.
Yea but she’s right. Both of Harry’s serious GFs attended numerous polo matches. Especially Chelsea. So this means…not a whole lot considering his history. Everyone thought he would marry Chelsea and he didn’t. All this talk is fun but idk why people are acting like he hasn’t done this before
Actually Cressida never attended a polo match with Harry. Chelsy did though. I think the reason why people are making this a big deal is because Harry and Chelsy were pretty young at the time. And they probably realised, based on their on/off relationship, that they were better apart than together.
Now at 32, people expect him to settle down. I think if Harry wanted to just date around he wouldn’t get into the trouble of long distance relationship. He was single for 2 years after Cressida. He could have just continued to enjoy bachelor life.
I also think that she’s the one who should call the shots in this relationship since she’s the one who’ll have her entire life turn upside down if he proposes.
Didn’t Normal Bill try to date other women in that 10-year period with no-one wanting much to do with him? I’ve always gotten the impression that Waity was the only thing that Bill had who was willing to marry him; he liked her family, so he just decided to take the plunge. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is bored out of his mind with her.
If they’re going to do it, I think they should hurry. *Not* being bitchy, but she’s 35 and he wants children. So…
Polo or no polo, Harry and Meghan will be engaged this year and probably married this year or early Spring at the very latest.
@FuefinaWG, you are quite right William did try to look for other women while Kate was waiting, he was especially interested in the very beautiful Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. This woman could have had William very easily but she was having none of it. In my opinion William did not try hard enough because unlike Harry ,who does not take no for an answer and gets the women he wants, William is too shy.
I think Harry and Meghan are already decided on engagement, I bet it’s a done deal already, with Palace advising on their next moves as far as bringing Meghan in and when to announce.
I never thought Harry would marry Chelsy after they broke up several times, (not for lack of love, because I believe they DID truly love each other,) but I think they were both just too young and not emotionally ready. I think Harry still needed to sort himself out emotionally and imo he has now. He has fallen in love with Meghan now and moved on. I really believe he and Meghan are perfect for each other, both have a interest in charitable causes, Meghan is use to the public stage, she is articulate, she’s traveled, worked or interned in Argentina for the Embassy, I think . I don’t feel the British press can scare her away with their mean-spiritedness press. Their nasty, meanspirited articles on both ladies.*(Chelsy and Cressida) were terrible, mainly the Daily mail , Meghan unlike the other two ladies will have a buffer or rebuttle press machine in the form of the US media to help her fight back against the Daily Mail nastiness. In other words, the US entertainment press will want Meghan to succeed as a Harry’s wife and Diana’s daughter -in-law. who is still adored by most of the US.
I think Harry was still trying to figure himself out, get himself emotionally sorted in the previous two relationships and also after dating , I don’t think Chelsy or Cressida cared for the idea of restrictions of royal life. I think it would have not worked and both ladies could see that and got out or it ended, either way and Harry could see he wasn’t ready.
IMO Meghan and Harry just seem to click-perfectly together and seem very much in love and he seems ready. He won’t be wishy washy like William was w Kate.
Engagement 2017, Wedding 2018.
@vlk, I agree; there’s seems to be a strong connection between them, especially with the common goal of public service. Also, agree the engagement will be announced this year (Fall maybe?) and the wedding next year. Don’t want to speculate on where, but I’m sure it’ll be a big church wedding and I think they’ll honeymoon in South Africa.
@vlk-so true
Louise177 is right. Chelsy and Cressida went to the Polo too. In Chelsy’s case she was seen socialising with Charles at the polo and it went no where.
Polo is merely one of the perks, but doesn’t indicate anything.
Yes,he brought Chelsy at his polo games(I haven’t seen photos of Cressida at polo games…with him…) but they were in their twenties(he was 20-26) and she was one year younger I think and she was studying and also they lived in the same country and the same city(I think….at least in the same country)…
In your twenties,you act spontaneously….and I don’t think at that time they were thinking more than dating:people were expecting them to settle and marriage….
Here,situation different :they are in their thirties (she is 35,he is 32…),they live in two different continents and they have to do 8 hours of flight before seeing each other(it’s not like if she can pop like she wants….) and she is filming now so I think it’s a little more serious but I can say for sure that there is an engagement on the way….I just can say it’s serious….but who knows? It’s just IMO….
I wanted to say that I can’t say for sure that there is an engagement on the way but that’s serious…
@FrenchB – yes, completely agree for all the reasons you’ve put forward.
Additionally, I find it really weird that people use elements of past relationships (eg. he did X with her, she also met X, etc etc) as reasons to conclude that this relationship is no different and/or nothing special while completely ignoring the points you’ve made above about his age, his wanting to settle down, the fact she lives on another continent and the fact they’re both committed enough to it to happily cross those continents on a regular basis.
I’m predicting they’ll be engaged by the Autumn, if not sooner. And a Winter wedding!
Exactly. Chelsea seemed far closer to getting a ring (smart woman moving onwards and upwards instead), and Cressida was just as involved and public with Harry as Meghan is right now.
They may well get engaged, but nothing really suggests it’s anymore likely than it was with anyone else, except for their ages.
This seems different, imo, has a different feel to it, than the others. IMO Harry is actually READY to marry.
I think Harry and Chelsy were deeply in love but just way to emotionally young and Chelsy HATED the restrictions and the press was atrocious towards her. IMO The press campaign they did against Chelsy during those years was to prop up Kate. It was awful what the british press did to Chelsy.
I believe Meghan and Harry just click together and they fell in love, and this time he is READY for marriage.
There’s a clear difference between Chelsy and Meghan: Age. Harry is older and closer to wanting to settle down…besides, we already know where this going based on some very obvious signs over the past few months.
What obvious signs?
Not snarking. Genuinely interested.
In a recent interview, he made it a point to mention that, having gone through a two-year process to deal with his mental health issues, he was finally able to get “serious” about his private life. I thought that was very interesting. Sounds like a man looking to settle down.
The biggest sign is shutting down her website, which was actually becoming a burgeoning business for her…at least in Canada. It got her endorsements. To let that go, out of the blue, seemed like a step toward a royal life.
Definitely. If they hadn’t spoken of the future she wouldn’t close down her business opportunities. She’s not an heiress-she clearly has to make her own money. No way she would have done that unless they had discussed Their Future.
Although Chelsy appeared to be a nice friendly girl, aside from her heavy smoking habit, I don’t think she was a suitable person for all the public engagements she would have to do. Cressida was totally unsuitable in terms of providing Harry with guidance. Also Harry needs someone sensible with a mature outlook, and this is where I feel Meghan fits the bill. Until now Harry did not have a warm and close female figure in his life. Ma Middleton has fulfilled that role in William’s life, much more than Kate.
Was…good analysis Princess k
@Princessk-I just saw my mistake,my comment was: Waw…what a good analysis
Harry seems close with his godmother, Lady Sarah and with former nanny Tiggy (godfather to one of her sons). Sarah, Tiggy, Sophie, even HM & Anne (in their way) have been steady, loving older females in his life. I don’t think Meghan provides the mother role here, she provides the self-confident lover/girlfriend role.
I honestly don’t think Cressida wanted a restrictive life in royalty. I never got the crazy hate by some Harry fans. She was a young lady in her early 20’s in University when they started dating and wanted to pursue her own life goals, in a career she was just starting out on. She did not want that restrictive life. imo She seemed like a nice person and so did Chelsy, I think they just wanted different things. IMO Cressida and Chelsy and Meghan all seem like nice ladies.
I like Harry’s choices in girlfriends because these are women who have goals, pursue their own lives. I think Harry’s girlfriends seem more well rounded than Kate, who basically never pursued anything except PW. I never saw Kate and William as a healthy couple emotionally when they were dating. Kate seemed way too desperate.
Great outfit! Kate take some lessons.
In the People article you can see it is a mullet dress, which is overkill for a polo match. Also, I’m over the jacket-as-a-cape look.
Sometimes it’s a bit chilly and it’s easier to put it over your shoulders than have it on and off all day.
The woman next to her was in a lace mini-dress. Meghan’s outfit was completely appropriate.
Agree–gorgeous and elegant. Rather have her overdressed for an occasion than Kate and her perpetual look-how-tiny-my-butt-and-thighs are tight pants game.
Suits would have to be officially over for her in order for an engagement to happen since you have give up your life in order to marry into that “family”.
They could get engaged now, and she could finish out this season’s contract which ends filming in November.
Other original cast members from the show have already left and Suits is winding down so it won’t be hard for her to leave once the season is done. She hasn’t had a very prominent storyline for while anyway.
I saw something by Royal reporter Camilla Tominey suggesting the engagement will be announced before the Invictus games this fall in Toronto.
Poor Meghan, the world is making it seem like marrying into that family is a huge achievement and all I see is Ed Sheeran’s racist distant cousin offering her a life full of restrictions and appearances at dull events.
I don’t think Maxima or Letizia are miserable in their royal roles. If you find the right person, and they happen to have this weird job of “being royal”? You can have a fulfilled life working hard for the country and charity.
Notasugarhere, completely agree. Big women seen “keen” on the role they are now in for their countries and husbands. Letizia seems very sophisticated and professional but always involved and Maxima seems to have a lot of fun with it. And there are more royal women who married in and fit that same bill you described.
Letizia has been miserable for quite a long time, which also included an eating disorder. She looks a lot happier since her husband became king.
Meghan had different things going on: acting, activism, lifestyle blog etc…Since it became more and more apparent that they were getting serious, she has been under the attack in the UK due to her biracial background which, can you imagine the scrutiny if Harry would have dated a darker woman? Then she shuts down her blog, rumours of her quitting her acting career and I’m sure everytime she will speak out against a subject personal to her, it will be related to being the partner of a white man who has an interesting past when it comes to racial subjects. Wow, yeah a dream life I’m sure!
Other royal couples usually have a wife that was born into a higher class family which allowed them to have high ranking positions or jobs that took them around the world and learnt different languages. They already had access to people who hold a lot of power and knew the etiquette and discipline to access their own opportunities. Even though Meghan could have had a more diplomatic career, she choose a creative one as her main career with activism to the side. That will change. She will have to give up certain things and image will be important even if Harry won’t become king. Royal marriages are all about sacrifice and protecting image more so than the work.
Comment disappeared. Reads like a lot of concern trolling. As far as we know, no one is forcing her to date him. She is a grown up, she makes her own choices. She chooses to be in a relationship with him, so why so much concern about it?
Etiquette can be learned; it isn’t innate to people who are born aristocrats. Letizia, Mary, Daniel, Sophie, Charlene. All from the everyday middle class, no fabulous connections got them ahead – they did that for themselves. None of them come from aristocratic backgrounds. Maxima came from a wealthy but not aristocratic background.
Nota,I agree with you (she is a grown woman and she probably knew what she was into)but I feel sorry for her for all the hate she is receiving (maybe because I’m a biracial like her…)…that’s the first time,I’m interested in Harry’s life(I only knew that he lost his mother and his misbehaving -wearing a costume with a svastika,calling his mate a pak,the Las Vegas thing) and when I heard that he was dating bi-racial,I start to pay attention at him but before that he was just one spoiled aristocrat…
Maybe it’s the way it is,when you date a high profile,you are hated no matter who you are or what you have accomplished and maybe others Harry girlfriends had also suffer from that “bad attention “…and maybe people in real life don’t act the as the same as when they’re behind their computers….
I like the fact that they are in love(what not to love about Love),they seems to be really Smitten and I think that she is a smart girl and she can learn how to behave in the aristocracy….but bad attention is no bueno for me….
Letizia ain’t so happy. Or wasn’t, in the past. It might be better now, I haven’t paid that much attention since she became queen. But she wasn’t exactly loving royal life for a long time.
It’s personal, though. Markle has as good a chance as anyone in making it work. She is used to cameras, seems like a natural extrovert, enjoys public life, and she is educated and worldly, like Maxima. Those are good qualities to start with.
Princess Mary seems to be having the time of her life; actually all the Scandi royals seems to be loving life.
I agree:it’s not a big achievement-she is more educated than him,she is a more achieved person(she has done these speechs,written essays without having all the staff he has in KP),she has a job,supported herself…all was given to him and she has to fight to be where she at….but life is unfair,people are hating her,demeaning her saying she is a D-list actress and a famewhore(I don’t think she deserves that…)because Harry is a grown man and he knows who is “fake” with him or who can use him,and even if that’s the case,is he a fool?I read somewhere that he stops texting girls when they were too much so….
If Harry was not a prince and they were just two regular person dating,I’m sure many people will ask themselves why she is dating him….
I personally think that her ex,the cook,was way better looking and loveable and she was free without anyone judging her….but what do you want? Love is love,I think….u can’t help it….
What I find interesting is what no one here has mentioned – Chelsy and Cressida knew what the “job” entailed and didn’t want it. There are many women who supposedly told Wills “No way!” So many women who see it up close run away as fast as they can.
Is this “job” of wife the kind of thing where you have to wonder what kind of person would actually want this? Like, anyone who would actually want to be in this life isn’t quite emotionally healthy? Or maybe Meghan doesn’t truly understand what her life will be like cause she hasn’t grown up in it?
If Kate is an indication, wanting this job means you will probably end up being terrible at it.
The outfit is giving me life!
People overreact and overthink about H&M relationship. I read DM comments under article and they were horrible (full of hate)- I doubted in humans souls- he brought all his ex-gf to polo macht and if he brought her it doesn’t mean that weeding is around the corner. Even if he marries her- so what world will change-no. Is she worse than he- noooo, there wil be another quite boring royal couple (like most of royals). Only her life will be simpler-no more money problem,great house and beautifull hats (I live Camilla hats). Europeans don’t care much about RF- there are much important things.
Camilla does have some beautiful hats. She looks good in those enormous hats and the huge tiaras.
No doubt that Cams can rock the bling bling, the bigger and blingier the better.
Yes, the comments on DM make my blood boil. But I continue to read and comment because I am on Team Meghan and Harry, and they need all the support they can get, and if I can add some arrows where they should be all well and good! I have actually seen more and more positive comments on DM, and I predict that as we get nearer to an engagement this will increase further. DM does not reflect majority opinion but it is influential in the sense that some people who do not think or read much will believe that DM reflects the views of British people, whereas DM is just manipulating the majority of its readers who are gormless.
You are so right to do so….I’m french and not very fluent in English so I can’t always respond to trolls…Team Meghan,lol
Yeah I made the mistake of reading the DM comments. What in the world?? People be cray. I’m going to stick to Celebitchy.
I thought she looked lovely, and I always like seeing Harry riding a horse.
I AM hoping for another royal wedding. 😀
Kaiser, she could already be flying back to Toronto, who knows? Work for a week on set, then fly back in a week and a half for a wedding (if she’s attending). Didn’t we learn last month that the whole production team has the week of May 14-22 off?
I’m really loving this outfit!!!
But I thought that Chelsea and Cressida were not interested in marriage?? Anyways, he was very young then, I do sense something different in the air here…I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for her to attend the “royal wedding” with Harry. Priceless!
I like the top half of the outfit, and the glasses, so thumbs up!
I have to agree with those who have put a dampener on the engagement rumours; polo matches are just par on course if you date Harry.
But she does look great.
The jury is still out on this romance. Members of the House of Windsor are not exactly great shakes. Charles could have lost the throne because of his cheating on Diana with Camilla (and it took ten years of image rehab before the Queen signed off on that marriage). Andrew has ties to an alleged pedophile. William took a vacation from his duties (and his marriage) on Commonwealth Day and Kate’s embarrassment was all over the internet. Harry’s early mess with the Nazi uniform and the naked romp in Las Vegas. The York princesses constant vacations. The current married ins are no better: Camilla’s alleged drunkenness; Kate’s dodging royal duties, the Middletons’ social climbing, trying to look royal. In short, the royal house is in no position to look down on Meghan with their respective histories.
As for the nasty comments about Meghan on other blogs, it’s the reaction of people thinking that people of certain backgrounds and ethnicity need to “know their place”. If that were so, there would not be a Muslim Mayor of London. No matter what happens, Meghan should just keep it moving and make a decision that would be best for her.
“Charles would have lost tge throne due to cheating on Diana with Camilla” what??? How?? We’ve had fewer non-cheating monarchs than the fingers of one hand. Mistresses have been celebrated. Whatever else Charles did, cheating on Diana wasn’t going to lose him the crown.
“Camilla’s drunkenness” what??! Where??! When??! 0_o
I don’t know why you think Charles would have lost the throne for cheating. Most of those who held the throne had a mistress or many mistresses.
The throne to a country where an entire new Church was founded so a randy king could divorce his wife and marry his mistress?
I like where you’re going with this version of the royal family – cheating Charles BANNED from the throne and drunken Camilla racing through the alleys.
If any of you here believe, he hasn’t promised this accomplished, book smart, street smart woman something for her to waste another of her childbearing years with him. You all are smoking something. She gave up Reitmans up until March, they were still hoping she would sign, once she came back from Jamaica she had her lawyers shut it down. Soething happened in Ja.
I’m with you. this woman has gone completely silent on social media, she’s shuttered her lifestyle blog, and she hasn’t done a lick of promo for her TV show. IDK if they’re engaged but what I DO know is that all this isn’t for nothing.
I have no idea what you just said.
I think Andrea is just saying that they’re for sure, 100%, if not actually engaged, most definitely going to be in the not too distant future.
Which I 100% agree with.
OHHHHHHHHHH! I’m half-working and not paying proper attention.
Sorry, Andrea!
Meghan seems bright and accomplished. I am tired of everyone putting her down. She is a graduate of Northwestern University which is ranked as #12 in the country. My daughter applied there so I know how hard it is to get in. So she made a mistake with her first marriage-many people do.
Kate’s parents started out working for the airlines. She and her family were social climbers. I believe these statements that Meghan is not good enough for the prince are racist. I am American and Kate does not impress me at all. She seems to be a mannequin. I think Meghan will add more substance to this “group”. Their education and work ethic are truly unimpressive.
Additionally I have loved all of Meghan’s outfits. She will put Dutchess Frump to shame.
Totally agree….she is a graduated from Nothwestern(which I see,it on internet,it’s 11th) so I don’t understand why people are thinking that he is the catch….I think she is the catch and she can do whatever she wants and I’m not sure that same can be applied to Harry….
So well said. Agree 100%.
I think Meghan would be an asset to the royals. She has an impressive education, has spoken to world leaders like Justin Trudeau, and has a history of charitable work. She would also make the royal family look more modern, which is something they desperately need. Honestly, they need her more than she needs them at this point in time.
If you hang out at this site, you will read far more pro-Meghan commentary than not.
Yes..and I like it..because when you go on royal forums,people are giving her so much hate that she didn’t deserve( her fault,loving their royal…)… here,people are moderate and even those who are against the romance,are moderate…and it’s important that we can exchange peacefully…
Yes, this is why I come here. This site is a breath of fresh air after DM, which really depresses me, although there are some posters on there who are valiantly fighting Meghan’s corner. The discussions here are so better, and I don’t mind if you are pro Meghan or not, its just nice to discuss it in an intelligent way.
They dont like the fact that she’s an American and an actress. Has nothing to do with her being biracial. Americans are seen as loud, crass,abrasive and rude. You know, a toned down Trump. Sorry but it’s true.
What a generalization! Americans are certainly not like that, and I am sure your comments won’t be appreciated. Many people are like that but they are not limited to the American population. I lived in th US for years, and found them to be a very warm people.
Are you serious?Did we read the same articles or the same comments saying that she’s almost from Compton and that her mother is visibly black….? And not just that,go read the DM comments and if you are fair enough,you’ll accept that there are racial undertones….
Yes she is an actress and so what? She is also a gratuated girl from the 11 th university of the US(Northwestern…) and have a double degree in Relations internationals and theatre and she worked in that area(in Argentina) before starting acting….Can you say the same about Harry? Who was even accused of cheating in Eton so how is he “better” on your mind than her?…..it’s not fair to make such excuses to criticize her….rude people exist everywhere and she is smarter than your prince that you seem to love so much….
Sounds like “They” don’t have as much personal knowledge about Americans as they think they do. But, I don’t take this comment seriously because it’s obviously just another not so subtle jab at Meghan.
I have to agree with Joannie. I am American and many of us ARE crass, abrasive and rude. I don’t think Meghan comes across like that at all, but I did read the comments the last few days on the DM, and they are 9 to 1 against Meghan and Harry ending up together. My impression was that it wasn’t about race – it was that she is an American, and HOW DARE an American “steal” their favorite son!!! That was the hate I saw.
Sarah,I’m sorry to disagree with you but as a biracial,the comments I read there have racial undertones and it’s funny but most of commentators there are….americans….and all the commentators are clearly racist….that’s how I feel it.
I don’t like the social climbing diss towards the Middletons. There is nothing wrong with becoming millionaires and wanting the best education for your children. Again, I’m not seeing this as a negative. If the Middletons are social climbers then so is Meghan.
The Middletons social climbing was the type where Carole called the mothers of aristo girls and asked them to be friends with her daughter. She didn’t call the mothers of non-aristo girls asking for friendship. They were called the Wisteria Sisters for good reason. Very different kettle of fish than self-made Meghan having some powerful and well-known friends.
Do we call it upstaging the bride when photos are released of other weddings where royals and royal adjacents attend? Not really. So I don’t really get the tone here.
I think it’s part of the Jane Austen PR narrative of this wedding and how the Middletons present themselves.
I think you have just nailed the Middleton PR, it has always read like a Jane Austin plot or an episode of Downton Abbey.
Didn’t we decide Moderately Wealthy James Matthews is the long-suffering, long-waiting Mr. Knightley to Pippa’s socialite Emma Woodhouse?
Nota: Yes he is.
I think it is because most people here dislike Kate and the Middletons intensely, as do I, but actually think Meghan will be different if she becomes royal – you know, she will shop at bargain places and refuse to allow the taxpayers to renovate any home she and Harry will live in or at least insist on paying it. Oh, and maybe she will get Harry to finally do more than a few charity events a month, and a few weeks a year at his own. You know, like actually work at something?? Harry is more charming than Wills, but he is just as entitled and only marginally less lazy than Wills. And he hates the press and the plebes just as much.
They are all entitled twits and Meghan is certainly not going to be bucking the system and paying her own way.
The Daily mail has photos of Harry and Meghan hugging and possibly kissing at today’s polo match!!.
Yes, in one of the photos he is kissing the hell out of her, then they embrace so tightly and can’t seem to let go. I hear there is nothing but crying in tumbler and DM comment sites. I am loving it. They didn’t care who say them either
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They probably thought Harry was celibate or something stupid. I never get the Tumblr crowd…
…and I saw the pics way more chemistry than the weddings ones. Whew those two…I’m feeling it.
Totally…I love when people are smitten…I feel joyful
Tumblr are insisting Meghan gatecrashed the event and it was pure coincidence that she was seated next to Harry and Harry’s ‘second dad’ person.
LOL.
Yay! I want to see a charming Christmas season wedding.
Me too, Liberty!!
Yes. St Martins. Christmas. Perfect . Can’t wait.
Jeez, I’m as looking forward to another royal wedding as the next but caring that much who they marry is just nuts. And just want to myself on record, as a critic of Kate and the money and inequity of it all, that I’ll hold that out against Markle quite as much as against Kate when MM is getting the perks. I’m an equal opportunity critic of royal perkdom as paid for by British taxpayers in that regard. And no one tell me about the pennies a day or a year it costs. That fortune was built on the backs of British taxpayers, the renovations of Kensington Palace was also (no one cared about the asbestos in the roof when office workers were using it) and if renovations are necessary to some stately home for MM and Harry, it will come out of the same Sovereign Grant – in other words, taxpayer money. And Markle will take the perks and love it while doing all that nice charity work.
I have fun with it all. especially the clothes and jewelry, and will be up to see the wedding (which I still think will be smaller than Kate’s and Will’s) and can’t wait to see photo ops of engagement and ring . . .
But that doesn’t make me a fan of the system, Markle or Harry or whomever.
And that said, what I can say for Meghan and Kate, is that at least it’s good to see the plebs get a foot in the door and their hands on all those perks.
But it’s still wrong, whether I like the bride or not. And, as Cosmo Castorini said, that’s all I’ saying.
Lmao, how people believe the Middletons would’ve had the gall to not invite Harry’s girlfriend, whomever she might have been, is beyond me. But props to them for keeping the attention on a wedding nobody cared about through this fabricated “drama”. If I were Meghan and Harry, I’d feel miffed for being so blatantly used for publicity, but perhaps they don’t care.