The week before Prince Harry and then-Meghan Markle’s 2018 wedding was especially chaotic, mostly because of Thomas Markle and the British media. Thomas Markle faked a heart attack, threw a massive tantrum, lied to his daughter and son-in-law and was clearly working with the media to try to get the wedding called off. As we know now, it was also during this week that Kate tried to pick a fight with Meghan and Kate left Meghan in tears (which Kate then reversed and told everyone that Meghan made her cry). We also know that Kensington Palace staffers could not handle the fact that Meghan asked them to do their jobs, and the staffers had already begun revolting against being given tasks by a Black woman. Well, is it a surprise to think that these unhinged jackasses were also being petty about a Rolls Royce?
Millions of royal fans watched as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said ‘I do’ during their fairytale wedding at St George’s Chapel in 2018. There was much to catch the eye, including the Duchess of Sussex’s minimalist silk Givenchy wedding gown. But there was something else, too, that was worthy of attention: the Rolls-Royce chosen to take the bride to the ceremony.
Magnificent in its own right, the maroon-coloured Phantom IV transporting Meghan and her mother Doria Ragland from the Cliveden House Hotel to St George’s Chapel had a rather unique history. As 46 years earlier, it had been used to convey another American divorcee, the Duchess of Windsor, to the funeral of her husband, the Duke, in 1972. Was there anything significant in the choice? The Duchess of Windsor, a figure at the very heart of the abdication crisis, can hardly have been a welcome comparison.
The Daily Mail’s Sebastian Shakespeare asked if it might be a joke in regrettably bad taste. And why might courtiers or aides have wished to play such a ‘joke’? The answer might lie in the widely reported tensions before the wedding itself with Harry and Meghan described as ‘behaving like teenagers’ in Valentine Low’s book Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind The Throne.
It’s really ghoulish to create the imagery-comparison of one American woman burying her husband and one American woman going to her wedding. In the Windsors’ desperate attempts to get Harry and Meghan’s attention, they’re going to end up confessing every single sh-tty thing they did to H&M, right? I always think that whenever these kinds of stories come out: the snubs are meant for an audience of two (Harry and Meghan) but by gloating about the snub, the palace has no idea how f–king unhinged they look to everyone else. This was just petty for petty’s sake, a baroque “punishment” designed by out-of-touch courtiers who thought they were being so clever. “What if we make Meghan ride in a car once used by the Duchess of Windsor, ha, that will be such an amazing signal to send!” They were seriously so mad that they did everything they could to ruin or stop the wedding and it didn’t work. That alone speaks volumes about the lack of “support” Harry and Meghan had from Day 1.
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Ridiculous. It’s a beautiful old car. What is wrong with those people?
@Bee how do you want that answered? Alphabetically, chronologically, or in order of pettiness?
😂by level of petty please
They also chose May 19th as her wedding date. Anne Boleyn (Henry VIII’s 2nd wife) was executed on May 19th.
@persephone by pettiness PLEASE!
More likely Meghan and Harry selected the wedding date based on her spousal visa timing. There were only so many spring weekends available that didn’t conflict with existing royal events.
Meghan was only allowed to be in the UK for X amount of time unless they were married. There was a quick trip to Chicago after the engagement was announced, thought to be related to her needing to travel back to the US to have visa work done that *had* to be done while on US soil.
William and Kate chose to share a wedding date with Hitler and Eva Braun.
@Laura C: “They also chose May 19th as her wedding date. Anne Boleyn (Henry VIII’s 2nd wife) was executed on May 19th.”
Exactly! 💯 May 19, 1536. Boleyn was thought to be 35 years old at the time. Meghan was 36 on her wedding day, the same age Diana was when she was killed. Moreover, Harry first laid eyes on Meghan, on his friend’s Snapchat, on July 1, 2016 (his mother’s birthday). They met in person at Dean Street Soho House, two days later.
We can come up with all kinds of date coincidences, and purported or imagined similarities between Meghan and Wallis. The only things that ring true are that both have (had, in Wallis’ case) superb style and fashion sense, both are/ were American and divorced when they married House of Windsor Princes, but Meg was only divorced once. That’s the end of any comparisons.
The gorgeous Rolls Royce looked fab on Meghan’s wedding day, especially with Meg & Doria riding in it on that beautiful, sunshine-blessed day! So the ill-will intended didn’t land anywhere, aside from boomeranging back on the gnarly rota and toxic firm. Diana is watching out for Meghan and Harry! Her guidance and her protection hold sway. 🤡 🫷🏻🫶🏻 🙌🏻 🌈 ✊🏽
Imagine the courtiers pulling this shite and no one making the connection. Here they are 5 years later, having to explain their snub that fell flat.
😂😂😂
They’re disgusting.
FFS, it’s a car. It’s just a car.
In that case I meant the daily fail for trying (for the thousand time) to draw a parallel between Meghan and simpson.
Kate arrived in a carriage. Meghan in a car.
Was that why her dress was “wrinkled” and everyone flipped out about it?
Kate arrived in a car. According to an L.A. Times story –
‘Prior to the wedding ceremony, Kate Middleton and her father, Michael, traveled to Westminster Abbey in a 1978 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI. The car, which belongs to the queen, was built to celebrate her 25th anniversary on the throne. It’s powered by a 380 cubic-inch V-8 and is the same car in which Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, were attacked in December 2010.’
You know who else arrived at her wedding to find her dress wrinkled? Diana.
LMFAOOOOO W&K share a wedding anniversary with Hitler? Somehow I never knew that. That’s great.
Listen, this family/firm speaks through symbolism. The history of the car & the Boleyn anniversary are significant, imo.
I also find it curious that this was the only royal wedding I’ve seen without a carpet in the church. I suspect that holds some meaning too but I’ve never seen anything written about it . . .
^^ Only significant insofar as the ill-will intended. But as I said earlier, the negative intentions do not touch nor impact H&M adversely. So what? Any curse intended is most definitely reversed, big time.
Diana’s age when she died and Meghan’s age when she married (36 in both cases), added to Harry first making contact with Meg on Diana’s birthday in 2016, hold far more significance and impact than any intentional slights, negative vibes, and ill-conceived smear campaigns plotted by the royal firm, in cahoots with the royal rota.
Re absence of a carpet. 🤔 Uh, so what! Go back and check out the beauty of H&M’s wedding. Who needed a carpet? 🙄
Yikes. This story does not do any favors for the courtiers/BRF. Sebastian Shakespeare seems to be doing quite a lot of mental gymnastics with this. The ‘unique history’, lordy, Simpson rode in it once. How many other royal family members rode in it before/after 1972?
I might be wrong, the ‘unique history’ of this particular Rolls Royce is NOT that Wallis rode in it once. It’s that it was made/given to QE2 when she was still a princess and the first Rolls-Royce, QE2 & Prince Philip had. PP rode in it quite a bit.
As far as any of us know, this Rolls-Royce may have been the Sussexes choice. A beautiful vehicle that Meghan looked like a boss walking out of. Honestly, imo, it’s one of my favorite Rolls-Royce looks. I believe it was originally done in green and black. The RF made a paint change from green to burgundy to reflect royal colors.
My suspicious mind thinks this vehicle is the one Ma Middleton wanted for Kate’s wedding and was told no.
p.s. the carpet thing is a nothingburger.
This was a stretch even for petty courtiers who think “once wallis simpson’s *ss hit the seat, the whole car has cooties”
They really tried to push her out and later unalive her by a thousand tiny cuts (microaggressions). But sure Whoopi, Ice Cube and any other celebrity that is asked and then volunteers their opinion on how she should have, could have stuck it out and changed this/what did she expect….
I “love” watching them tell on themselves and try to dress it up as a savvy sixth sense about that dreadful woman when it was simply good ol’ fashioned prejudice and racism.
Ice Cube has an opinion on this? Seriously? Wow. Ice Cube. huh.
@Trillion I absolutely love seeing you here!!. So my comment on this is about the whole if they are going to make Wallis analogies why not Anne Boleyn? They were married on the day she was beheaded. Not a peep about that I guess. That is the absurdity of the situation. Wallis & she are divorced Americans. Quell Horrors. The comparison ends there. Next.
It seems like they ask EVERYONE for their opinions on the Sussexes, no matter how unrelated it may be to whatever any given interview is about in the first place. It’s absolutely insane.
@Snappyfish: same! OGs!
Right! @Lorelei. It’s bonkers & nutso. Plus, what the person may have actually said is misrepresented. Hey, Simon Rex stated he was offered $70k by the BM to lie about Meghan. I do not recall the Daily Fail, Sun, Express, et al,..sharing the story that someone refused money to lie about Meghan.
They are actually spilling tea but in a backhanded way. They think this a ha ha on Meg look what we did to you but in reality it’s a confirmation of the really low class actions by them and the lengths they will go to show just how disgusting that they really are to Meg and Harry and all because he fell head over heals in love with a biracial woman.
These are all the things they were worried would come out in the interview and book. There must be so many more large and small examples of how they terrorised her every day.
I can’t wrap my brain around the fact that none of these people— from the courtiers, to the media, to the family members themselves— do not realize HOW BAD these stories about their petty little stunts makes them look. It’s unreal. There really aren’t more than two brain cells to rub together among the lot of them.
That is insane! Edward was King and abdicated. Harry was further down the line for being king. These people are absolutely tiring. They left England 3 years ago, and yet, they still are writing about them like they are still there; it’s ridiculous!
You can’t make this stuff up, they’re so good at shooting themselves in the foot. How is this supposed to make them look good? It just validates each and every day the reason why the Sussexes were compelled to leave. It’s a beautiful vintage car, and I’m sure a lot of other personages have used it in its long history other than Wallis Simpson and Meghan. Next….
The car is just one thing the got as wedding gift Frogmore a former servants house, and Frogmore has a maosoleum where guess who is burried, the former king and his twice divorced american wife. These little things where just signs what they think about Meghan and show her where her pllace is
That former king is buried there, because he loved Frogmore house and that’s where he lived. You can call it a servants house or a former king’s house.
You are confusing Frogmore House (mansion with mausoleum) with Frogmore Cottage (staff quarters). Harry and Meghan got given the latter. The ‘former King’s house’ was the mansion.
Wallis and Edward are buried behind the mausoleum where Victoria and Albert are entombed.
Half the non reigning royal family since Victoria is buried in Frogmore cemetery. Including Philip’s mother until she was reburied in Jerusalem.
Exactly. What had she “done” at this point? You wanted her to feel as much like an outsider as possible and undermine her before she even said “I do.”
Christ, they’re a bunch of vacuous c**ts
100% Totally agree Mads! And picking May 19th, my God, how much clearer could they be about their evil intentions toward Meghan. Please Harry, publish Volume 2 and Meghan should also write a book from her perspective.
@Mads That is the most evergreen statement about the British royals that has ever been said.
What @BlueNailsBetty said
Are the courtiers not aware that the woman married to a future king in an area unhappy union is the one who cosplays Wallis Simpson? Harry was in no position to abdicate. Someone didn’t think this one through.
Surely ‘the men in grey’ courtiers have aged out or passed on by now!? They need some modern people in those palaces and cut the ‘courtier’ name,its so outdated.
Was Meghan supposed to be upset because they gave her a beautiful, classic Rolls Royce to ride in? Who cares who used it before. I mean, so what? This is literally so petty I don’t get the joke.
All these royal cars have probably been driven to funerals before.
Right! And I’d rather ride in a car that Wallis Simpson sat in once than repeatedly have to go to anything involving Prince Pedo [Andrew].
These people are so mean. It’s a stupid, petty joke – but that anyone would want to do that to a woman on her wedding day just shows how morally bereft they are.
I had been a royal watcher for years and was inclined to give all of them the benefit of the doubt, until the wedding (most of the nasty stuff hadn’t come out yet). The look on William’s face during the ceremony told me everything I needed to know about his character.
Again, as I have said before, I am too much of an American to understand why the royal family even needs to exist. They have done nothing but be born into a certain family – they have not contributed to the world, they have not helped humanity, they have not added to literature or science or even politics. They are nasty, rude people.
My feelings are yours. They are mean, nasty rude people. If they are the epitome of the class system in the UK, there is thus no class.
I couldn’t believe how the Royal family behaved during the wedding. Fully knowing they were on camera! And the commenters in real time weren’t saying anything about it. The Queen and PP actually were the Best behaved, which maybe they were checked out I don’t know, but yikes.
The reason why the Palace and the press are petrified every time Meghan does an interview and the possibility of a memoir is because of all the terrible things they did to her. What we know is just tip of the iceberg.
Well, at the rate these geniuses are going, Meghan won’t have to say one word or write a single page. They are doing a great job ratting themselves out…
The most egregious and racist incidents are not being leaked because they know how detrimental they will be to family.
I hope Meghan eventually spills it ALL some day.
This family constantly has stories about their egregious behavior coming out that are detrimental to their image, but it never seems to matter. Everything is pretty much forgotten or brushed off to the side. They’re like Teflon Don.
They are so clueless. They have spent the last few year trying to discredit Meghan in the hope that if and when she shares her story, people won’t believe her.
On the other hand, they leak these stories which show just how cruel and petty they were and how unashamed they are of their behavior. So I will absolutely believe that they were racist and hateful to Meghan.
Tyler Perry said as much in episode 6 of the documentary.
Meg could have said so much more stuff in that Oprah interview.
She is a class act.
But she has so much more dirt, intel, receipts on the racist trash with money.
No wonder they are still scared of her.
They should be.
Ah, but thanks to hubris and entitlement, these folks have no boundaries when it comes to releasing stuff. As well, they honestly don’t think anything, no matter how racist or hateful, was wrong. Add to that their desperation to nail the Sussexes any way possible, and that’s a nice toxic mix that will loosen the wrong mess someday.
This pit of vipers keeps showing they ass. I can’t help but wonder about British society though. Is racism so pervasive there that smugly and gleefully revealing these micro aggressions is considered amusing and clever? Do the courtiers honestly perceive that their fellow Britons are so racist that they would find it deeply satisfying that Meghan was endlessly marginalized and abused? It’s as though British mentality regarding non-white people lags far behind other Western nations, even those with their own fraught histories regarding race. At this point, many Brits look to be very much behind the curve and celebrating that fact.
Don’t they realize how awful this looks from the outside looking in?
I’m a French national who has been living in England for 11 years, with as many years in the UK, but come from a varied background.
What strikes me here is the general cruelty.
I’ve lived in very different countries besides, Haïti, Brazil, Portugal, Northern Africa & others.
I never witnessed so much cruelty. Think about how they behave as colonisers, at wars. Also until the 80’s poor kids were actually sent tono Australia, New Zealand where they were physically, emotionally, sexually exploited. Most had parents but were told they had died. They were just poor or sick and as such were considered like nobodies. Altogether 130,000 child migrants were sent abroad, some just babies who became after WWII manpower on farms. No other country has done this.
The cruelty of it.
My heart cries for them, for the vulnerable as well as for Meghan who never was treated humanly.
They don’t care. Because if there’s ANYTHING British racists are experts at, it’s making THEMSELVES the victims of racism every single time their racism is pointed out. Rinse and repeat.
An American I follow on Insta is on a tour of Italian gardens with a group that’s mostly older upper class British folks. I say upper class because she recounted that one older man told her a story and the point was that his dad had been prime minister.
Anyway, she says that they’re all completely wrapped up about anxiety about the end of the empire. Multiple comments about how you can’t say anything anymore, multiple discussions about whether saying the n word is appropriate. Like some of these old biddies are out there throwing the n word out on a tour of grand Italian gardens and there’s like two people telling them it’s not ok.
Not surprising. They’re pickled in aspic.
Honestly after watching the Beckham doc I think the British are just cruel trash in general. Add on their inherent racism and Meghan got a double-whammy. The pattern of over-reaction and daily abuse is how they do things.
I saw the Beckham series too on Netflix. I know we have problems here but my goodness they seem to thrive on cruelty. The stereotype that Brits are nice and proper are far from the truth. Having visited multiple times in the early 2000s, I can tell you many of them (not all) are very arrogant esp if you are living in a country they have colonized. Since then we have just visited continental Europe.
INSIDIOUS…I am SO GLAD Harry & Meghan got OUT of that HELLSCAPE😬 CAN you IMAGINE THE STUFF HARRY & MEGHAN HAVE NOT SPOKEN ABOUT? Lawd🤬
Honestly this is so sick. What sick, sick people.
Good grief how much lower can these morons sink IT WAS A CAR, it had been used for many Royal weddings but they had to make it about them using a snide at meghan. They are showing every day in every way that they made sure megs didn’t stand a chance against this vitriol! But without even realising it, they are making it seem as if the late Queen was part of their pathetic little mind games, as she had to agree with every detail of the wedding!!! Christ on a bike Harry, please publish and be damned, get those other 400 pages out there. And Megan, publish your own book “with receipts” and bring them ALL crashing down. They deserve nothing less.
Remember folks, these people are supposed to be so much classier and refined than us common folk.
“Welcomed” indeed
Harry never became king and abdicated. Wallis had a husband when she was Edward’s mistress. Same as Camilla was married to Andrew Parker Bowles when she was Charles mistress. There is no comparison. Had Camilla lived some decades ago she would never have been able to be queen.
Do they realize how racist they are, to try to link a BIRACIAL BLACK woman to a Nazi sympathizer simply because they’re both American divorcees who married into that family? These people are not alright at all.
If the Royals had any sense they would fire these idiot courtiers because all this malicious gossip make their bosses look bad.
In my opinion, they did worse than try to force a comparison with Wallis Simpson.
They signaled their hope for the future of what couple should be when they gave Prince Harry the title of the “Duke of Sussex.” Harry is the second Duke of Sussex, but Megan is the first Duchess of Sussex, even though the first Duke of Sussex was married twice.
The first Duke of Sussex was progressive for his time and twice married without the King, his father’s permission and both times his father work Ed diligently and successfully to destroy his marriages. His father used carrots and sticks, (pressure and bribes) to destroy Augustus Frederick’s marriages. The royal family seriously I miscalculated who Prince Harry is.
You should look up the history of the first Duke of Sussex, especially around his familial relationship. It will tell you a lot about what the BRF was signaling with that title. If you think of a queen said a lot with her brooches, hear what the institution said with the Sussex title.
You should look up the history of the first Duke of Sussex’s marriage to see how horrible the BRF’s were/are. They totally miscalculated the outcome because they working with the same playbook from the 1800s.
As a European, I heard, basically since he was a baby that Harry was dumb, while of course, Bulliam was supposed to be smart, studious, gifted.
We know better, now. At least some of us.
But beyond the Sussex title, the earldom of Dumbarton was a very poor choice.
What’s wrong with the Dumbarton title? Is there some historical association with it that is unsavory? Or is it that the immature see the word “dumb” in it and get silly? Dumbarton looks like a lovely place.
An interesting retelling of the history of the life of first Duke of Sussex.
I’m sure there’s a deeper dive somewhere.
https://www.regencyhistory.net/2013/04/augustus-duke-of-sussex-1773-1843.html
So….BASICALLY…the FIRST Duke of Sussex & the SECOND Duke of Sussex are the ONLY 2 British Royal Family MALE members I would want to engage with…past or present! Thanks for the heads-up “Is that so?”❣️
Thanks for the link @Is That So? Very interesting background on the first Duke of Sussex, Prince Augustus Frederick, sixth son of George III. Still, see my additional posts below regarding the fact that there were only so many dukedoms available for QE-II to bestow on Harry. I doubt that firm operatives had any huge input. Harry had already indicated his preference before he ever met Meghan.
Of course, the fact that Augustus Frederick married twice without permission, is interesting, but notice that he was not named Duke of Sussex until after he divorced his first wife. His second wife did not receive the Sussex title because their marriage was unapproved. However, when Victoria became Queen, she extended to her favorite Uncle’s second wife, the title, Duchess of Inverness (one of Augustus’ lesser titles).
The part about then Princess Charlotte (daughter of George IV) running away from her harsh father to seek shelter, comfort, and counsel from her favorite uncle, the Duke of Sussex, is a fascinating tale that could bear repeating (albeit somewhat differently) generations later. 😉 At the very least, Augustus Frederick’s life has such appeal, it seems worthy of being dramatized.
More on history of the royal dukedoms:
https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/columnists/the-laird-othistle/a-dukedom-for-harry/
@Is That So?: “… what the BRF was signaling with that title…”
Nothing was being signaled when QE-II, Harry’s grandmother gifted him on his wedding day, the royal title, The Duke of Sussex. There are only so many of these titles available. A few are in abeyance (i.e., Cumberland and Albany, due to being held by German cousins when WWI broke out).
FYI: Before Harry ever met Meghan, it was widely speculated as to which dukedom he would eventually be given. Reportedly, Harry even discussed the topic with his grandmother and voiced his preference for the Sussex title, which was available, along with Clarence, and Windsor. Neither especially appealing for many reasons.
^^Accordingly, I would say that any significant connections noted between Harry and the first Duke of Sussex are at best fated, and in some aspects, coincidental.
A snub like an insult loses its power if no one notices it and you have to explain it.
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Yep. And they gave people a long time to get it before they just HAD to explain.
Ernest Simpson even took the blame for his divorce from wallis.
No wonder Meghan seems to be completely finished with her husband’s family. If this is the kind of stuff leaking out, imagine the other cruelties, large and small, she could tell us about.
The unchecked racism of the palace staff continues today, clearly … and Mr. We Are Very Much Not a Racist Family can shove his denials where the sun doesn’t shine.
Until Meghan came along, Harry seemed to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome — a coping mechanism to survive a captive or abusive situation, developing positive feelings toward their captors or abusers. She identified this right off the bat and made it her priority to get him into therapy. Of course the abusers turned on her for 1) being biracial; 2) being American; 3) being an *actress*; and 4) helping Harry identify his psychological issues from being the “spare”. For this they turned on her like a bunch of spiteful harpies. I doubt very much that the Sussexes are insulted by the Rolls Royce. The courtiers can stew in their bitterness all they like, they’ve become no more annoying or hurtful to the Sussexes than a swarm of gnats, they just brush them off and continue to be successful.
@Jaded, Harry may well have suffered from Stockholm Syndrome, I don’t know. In his conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté, regarding Spare, Harry acknowledged having suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder in his youth, in large part as a result of coping with grief and familial trauma. Harry also discussed dealing with PTSD after his war zone experiences in the British military. I would suggest you reread Spare, particularly in regard to what Harry reveals about his relationship with Meghan.
FWIW, Meghan is not a psychologist nor a psychiatrist. She was simply a girlfriend that was not having her boyfriend raise his voice to her. At the same time, as Harry relates in Spare, Meghan understood Harry’s true nature was not consistent with how he had spoken to her on that fateful occasion. Thus, she gave him the ultimatum to not do so again, and she also encouraged him to try harder to find the therapeutic counseling help she knew he needed.
Your indication that Meghan “knew right off the bat [what Harry was suffering from, and that] she made it her priority to get him into therapy,” is a completely off base and inaccurate reading of what Harry related in Spare. As well, I don’t think firm operatives thought too far past Meghan’s ethnicity, her American background, her career as an actor, and her divorced status. She was seen as inappropriate and not wanted on the first strike alone, obviously! It’s only later, once H&M were married, that the firm, rota, and Sussex haters began attributing so-called ‘changes’ in Harry, to Meghan’s ‘bad’ influence.
Supporters and sane observers recognize that Harry quitting smoking, decreasing his drinking, paying more attention to fitness and good health, smiling more and being less despondent, are all good things. In part, these behavioral changes were due to Meghan’s positive influence, but also to Harry’s own growth process and to his burgeoning confidence.
I think the Sussexes are basically ignoring them and they are so cut off from any type of access that they are desperate for attention and manufactured news. When I see stupid stories like this, first response is what exactly are we supposed to do with this bit of trivia, especially years after the event happened. This a just a big shrug. Whatever.
The amount of hatred overtly shown to Meghan can never be forgotten by a vast amount of people who barely tolerated the Windsors to begin with! History will never look kindly on these people. V sad
Tbh, I don’t know why any American would want to even have sympathy for the BRF. They’ve Always been condescending and snobbish to Americans no matter what color you are(you hear that Megyn Kelly lol). Even Worse if you are an American who is also a POC.
It’s funny because Diana’s great grandmother is an American from Brooklyn. And a lot of the British aristocracy has ties to the US because they were marrying American girls with new money to help save their bankrupt estates back in the 19th century.
They are so hypocritical.
Americans are too American. Like, it’s a bad thing since we beat them in a war. Oh, right, we beat them My bad.
The British Royal Family loves American money. It’s the Americans they dislike.
We love watching the soap opera, but that’s only because we’re not funding this family of halfwits to live so opulently.
Just let them keep on hating and saying bad things about them Harry and Meghan will be alright
they being trying for five years now they can not separate them that’s why they are so anger
Love wins in the end
The Wallis/Rolls connection was reported at the time of the wedding. This isn’t new information. Why is it being rehashed now?
Because Meg sells papers, and the royals no longer sell papers. And the “courtiers” and the “rota” have nothing better to do or talk about. Nothing.
When the press can’t sell clicks on the actual royals- how long will they keep being their stenographers? I mean sure- their racism gives them a little boost to hate on The Duchess of Sussex- but at what point does the fact that no one care to read about the royals – come back to bite the royals and their famous unwritten contract.
Unless the Duchess of Windsor’s skeletal remains were propped up in the seat next to her, why would anyone know or care? It’s a beautiful old car, even their attempts to insult people are pathetic.
This is such a stupid reach. If anybody was trying to make the “joke” happen, it was the palace insiders who arranged the stupid car in the first place. Or are we to believe that Meghan chose that vehicle AND knew who rode in it fifty years ago?
To think that people have jobs where they literally sit around and much up s*** about Meghan all day, years after she left the whole damn country. I am aware of the irony of saying this while on a gossip site, but their level of obsession and their commitment to creating absurd gossip is beyond the pale.
This is so effing stupid. That particular car was one of EIGHTEEN ever made. It’s incredibly special as vintage cars go. It was also the very first RR which belonged to the queen and Philip. Any selection was a nice gesture, as it was for Kate, not some sinister or malevolent act. The fact that the DM feels free to say it is is only possible because both the queen and Philip are dead and they can rewrite history. It was a kind gesture for the Duchess of Windsor as well. Harry and Meghan know the truth so the pitiful attempt to embarrass them looks even stupider.
These people are ——.