I do feel sorry for the Duchess of Sussex, but I also don’t believe that she’s some sad sack who has taken to her bed in the wake of her father’s toxic shenanigans. I mostly believe that Meghan was well aware of who and what her father is before now. She had learned years ago that she couldn’t count on him, that he was a toxic s.o.b. So I don’t really know what to make of all of these stories about “Saint Kate is looking after poor Meghan now.” I think it’s possible that Kate and Meghan have struck up a friendship, but I just don’t buy that Kate is showing Meghan any particular support or guidance regarding the Thomas Markle situation. Anyway, People Magazine did a short interview with royal historian Robert Lacey, who claims that Meghan has formed a deep bond with both Kate… and the Queen.
When it comes to feeling supported within the royal family, Meghan Markle has the ultimate champion in husband Prince Harry, but she also has two very senior royals to lean on as she adjusts to her new life: Queen Elizabeth and Kate Middleton. Since officially becoming a royal after her wedding on May 19, Meghan has had high-profile outings with both the Queen and Princess Kate. And their relationships are strengthening behind the scenes as well.
“What’s characterized these months are the two great relationships that she has struck up with the Queen and with Catherine,” Robert Lacey, historical consultant for The Crown, tells PEOPLE. “They seem to be her closest friends and partners in the official set-up.”
In fact, Meghan’s royal stamp of approval came very early on from a few beloved members of the Queen’s entourage: her corgis.
“Harry gave the clue to it when in the [engagement] interview he talked about how well the corgis had taken to her instantly. That seems to be a metaphor for the Queen and everybody else has taken their cue from that,” Lacey adds.
Lacey doesn’t know sh-t. Let’s be real. Lacey is just out here in the cheap seats, like everybody else, trying to figure out what’s happening behind the scenes by looking at photos of video of their public appearances. I could call myself a royal expert too: judging from photos and videos, I’ll say that the Queen is utterly charmed by Meghan and the Queen has taken a keen interest in helping Meghan adjust. I also believe that the Queen is keen on being seen as accepting Meghan publicly. The Queen doesn’t want anyone to write stories about how Meg is not in her favor. As for Kate… well, I still believe Kate and Carole are plotting *something* but that’s just my suspicious nature. I’m not some fancy-smancy royal historian, that much is clear.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Avalon Red.
I think it’s possible they are closest to Meghan *among the royals*. Not that Meghan has no other friends. Also, Camilla seems like fun so I’d throw her in there.
It’s good for Meghan to be tied to two other popular members of the royal family. I almost think this is a PR move by Meghan’s people to tie her more strongly to the popular branches of the family and make her more “royal”.
It is a good pr move for all involved, Meghan is more “royal” as you say and the royal family is accepting and understanding. This makes a traditionally staid institution warm and “modern”.
As for Kate and Meghan I hope they have got a growing friendship as they both occupy a very weird spot in popular culture with unique pressures.
I think Eugenie has better friendship with H&M coz they don’t have kids. They can hang out and double date.
Oh for Pete’s sake. They are really running with this narrative now, aren’t they?
I’ll just repeat what I have said in other posts about this same topic. I’m sure they get along, I’m sure they are friends (or friendly), I’m sure there is no bad blood. Maybe they are BFFs, who knows. I don’t think you can tell that from the appearance at Wimbledon. But I doubt it. I’m sure there is a bond because no one is really going to understand what is like to marry into that family at such a high level (meaning not a third cousin or something) besides Kate.
and I’m sure the queen and Meghan get along famously.
But these Saint Kate stories are just starting to get on my nerves, lol.
Totally agree with you. Enough of these stories. If Kate and Meghan have become friends then that’s lovely for them but do we need constant press about it?
Kate and her family were shredded by the press. I absolutely believe she is helping Meghan navigate how to deal with and, frankly, learn to ignore, bad press coverage.
I think it’s a little from column A and a little from column B. I’m thinking they’re friendly, building a real friendship takes some time, and yes, Kate’s been busy with her kids (birth/Christening), and Meg was busy with her wedding. But living in proximity, and the fact that these two hold a unique position together (and are married-ins to two close brothers) makes me think they will form a solid friendship.
Will they be BFFs? Of course not. But I do think they will be friends and rely on each other more as time goes on. And if H and M have kids (I am *so* hoping for that hot-sweaty Polo Baby! lol), they will have more in common as well.
+1 Mac
It is a very thick sell. I agree. I don’t think there is bad blood but I would think if she was leaning on any royal it would be Camilla. She knows how vicious the press is and she keeps going. I mean she pretty much shrugged and said-Oh well haters I AM GOING TO MARRY HIM ANYWAY! HAHAHAHA! Stuff it up yer bums.
She works hard and looks happy. If she ever missed a step or a wink of sleep over public perception she sure doesn’t show it. She and Chuck look loved up and thrilled to the ground to be together.
Cam’s got tips. I am sure she does.
The corgi story again, really? This Lacey dude is reaching, regurgitating fan fiction and former DM stories. Do better.
Carole is a saint next to Thomas Markle, let’s be real.
And why would she be planning something? It’s stupid! She loves her daughter, and her daughter is doing fantastic. She doesn’t need to do anything
Carole and Kate at must will be planning family photo shoots and happy stories.
What else can they do?
(Maybe Kate will finally get Duchess lessons and public speaking training?)
Except they aren’t not doing anything. Carole you almost never see or hear except for wimbledon and private events like birthday’s and christening’s. You haven’t seen Kate since April except for around five events. They are not planning family photo shoots (except for christening of her son and one event at polo) or writing happy stories.
Carole and Kate are just living their life. Nothing more and nothing less.
And some people are just bad at public speaking for whatever reason. And it’s not that william, harry, charles and the queen are good public speakers. Nobody ever mentions them but they are just as bad or just slightly better. But they have been doing interviews and speeches for many more years then kate.
Kate is bad at public speaking because in 7 years she has done very little of it. And she chooses not to improve herself. Harry was able to give a good speech at the recent Invictus Games because he worked on it. He is dyslexic and does not have a university education like Kate does, so she has no excuses. The time for excuses is over. She is an adult that chooses not to become a better speaker because it is not a priority for her.
@Nic919 But fact stands some people are bad at public speaking. And she has improved from her earlier speeches. And no Harry is not good at public speaking. Invictus he didn’t do from paper. And being good at one speech in his whole life doesn’t say much. He is doing exactly what you are always accuse kate of doing namely reading of the paper. All the royals are not good public speakers. For example the queen still reads of the paper and almost never looks up and that after 60 years of speeches.
I don’t care about it because it’s not the end of the world if someone is a bad public speaker. It’s not a crime to be a bad public speaker. If you don’t understand it read the speech i say and most of the time they have it subtitled in the video. No big deal.
The Queen is a bad public speaker on purpose. When she reads the speech from the Throne or other speeches on behalf of her government, she cannot give particular emphasis to any particular points because then it would be taken that she approves of them. So whether the policies are conservative or socialist, she reads them in the same monotone. This does not apply to other royals. (And, as ever, Kate could continue to be the worst public speaker in the world and I would not care if she would only do some more work).
Meh, I think “plotting” is a strong word, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone in the middleton camp placed a call to Katie Nicholl or whoever and that started this latest run of “Kate and Meghan are BFFs” stories.
Katie Nicholl doesn’t need a call frome middleton camp (is there even a middleton camp) to make up a story. She has made plenty of stories up about everyone in the brf.
Sure, but if you were going to make up a story, it would be more interesting to make one up about how they are arch enemies, lol.
@Becks Yeah I can see that. This is PR and it is heavy handed so sure I can believe it.
One of Carole’s best friends for awhile is head of the a Daily Mail.
How do you think we’ve known about years and years of William in Carole’s kitchen in the morning chatting over a cuppa Cocoa with Carole during the dating years.
The paper was not as hard as some would like to believe. Kate spent years basically partying, vacationing, doing very little yet the paper always usually praised her,while ripping to shreds Chelsy Davey, PHarrys girlfriend who was in law school.
Calling Kate, Waity Katey came from Internet sites because Kate didn’t work, Daily Mail picked it up. A lot of what they got up to as a family was not reported as far as cashing in , it’s done quietly, which I give her kudos for,knowing how to keep things to herself, seeing now how messy some family members can be. Carole is smart, and loves her daughter and family. She’s a lioness about protecting them and Kates image. I give her props for that.
She even finally got her brother to shut the heck up.
I think Meghan and Kate are friendly of course , but not the way the press would like us to believe- I do not think they are super close yet, but the friendship may grow over years, we’ll see.
Well, he says “closest friends….in the official setup” which I guess I can buy.
Nah, the Queen isn’t running around being mates with her grandsons new wife. This is nonsense being peddled to diminish Markle further. Girl has plenty of girlfriends. I can believe the queen is fond of her but puleeeaz to the closest friends bs.
@Clare the Queen is actually well known to like Sophie and Fergie despite their misdemeanours of past. Also she loved her sister despite her crazy ways.
I think there may be a grain of truth. Look at pics of Megsy and the Queen, they seem quite friendly to me.
I don’t think it diminishes MM to say TQ or Kate are becoming friends, quite the opposite. And yes, she has plenty of girlfriends, but this is talking about the BRF.
@minx, I don’t know if these stories “diminish” MM per se but I kind of get what Clare is saying. If you read comments on twitter or IG about Meghan or Kate, the general thinking from Kate fans is that she is a “true royal” and Meghan is just pretending or is a “bad royal” or “not royal enough” or “needs to take lessons from the future queen” or whatever. So in a way I think these stories about how Kate supports Meghan and she is there for Meghan emphasize Kate’s role as the “true royal” helping poor Meghan who can’t handle her new world alone.
Now like I said above I think that Kate is probably able to help Meghan because she has the best idea out of anyone what she is going through (even without the dad stuff), but I do think in a way these stories feed into the idea that Meghan is floundering. If there wasn’t all that pushback on Meghan being “royal” then I wouldn’t look at these stories as diminishing her at all.
I don’t know if that makes sense ha.
@Minx I meant that there is a constant attempt to diminish MM – yesterday she got protocol wrong today she has no friends and depends on KM/TQ. Sure, being friendly with KM and TQ is a good thing – but the implication that they are her ‘best friends in any scenario is frustrating and to me feels like yet another microaggression.
@Dizzy not sure what you are responding to? Did I imply in my comment that the queen doesn’t like her? I didn’t think I did? I just meant its unlikely a 90 something head of state (basically the boss of the family, too) is running around being pals with her grandsons wife. No shade to Markel..just…being realistic. I know she is super fond of Sophie, too, but I doubt they are besties, either.
While I bet the queen and Megan are fond of each other, I doubt they are “friends.” She’s the boss – she’s likely not “friends” with any of them.
They’ve already had an overnight together…something she hasn’t done with ANYONE ELSE…so…I beg to differ…
He is her father and she would have known for years about his true character.
I don’t think she is surprised that he is behaving this appalling and she is just abiding time.
Plus all these interviews from her father is showing the world his character and people are getting tired of him.
If it was his aim to make the public hate Meghan, it backfired on him and Vonnie.
He comes across as a narcissistic bully, and now people are questioning his character or what’s left of it.
I have no idea how close they are “in the offical set up” or “in private”. I hope they are at least friendly with each other. They don’t have to be best friends. But why would kate and carole be plotting something. Based on what. You never see or hear Carole except for wimbledon and private occasions like birthday’s and christening’s. Kate has also not been seen since April except for around five events. Why would they…… I really don’t understand. IMO
Am no fan of Katie Keen but these 2 were always going to get along in the sense that they are sisters in law. They maybe very different women but am sure they are getting to know each other and finding some common ground to build a relationship with. It happens in normal families too, esp when you marry into a family where the siblings are close.
I think this narrative is just the Katie Keen sugars creating a new image for her to try and repair the lazy, do nothing image that both she and William have at the moment.
That narritive is from the tabloids. And that lazy do nothing image was the narritive from last year from the tabloids. They haven’t got that image at the moment. Tabloids have moved on from that. And in the coming years there will be plenty of different narratives the tabloids will assign to each of them. Some of them will be based on truth, some of them will be based on lies and some of them will be in the middle. IMO
Erm no the do nothing narrative has been with them for quite a few years now, esp as their end of year numbers are ALWAYS the lowest for senior members of the BRF. It’s a fact and not a tabloid narrative. Katie Keen even cancelled an engagement to go on holiday with William – she claimed morning sickness and was papped the next day leaving a Scottish airport to go to the Maldives.
Yes that narrative has been with them for the past few years. But since last year tabloids have moved on from that. And yes they have the lowest numbers of the senior members and i expect it will remain lower until the queen dies. But fact remains tabloids have moved on from that. I think because it was becoming boring. You can only say so many times they are lazy or they don’t do enough. If it remains the same brf has no problems with it.
Her name is Kate not Katie Keen. Anyway i never heard that story that she cancelled a engagement claiming morning sickness and that she was papped the next day at a scottish airport to go to the maldives. I thought they went to maldives in 2014 and in 2014 she wasn’t pregnant. So how can she cancel a engagement for morning sickness when she wasn’t pregnant. And why would they be in scotland if she had a engagement. Anyway even if it did happen like you say what does that have to do with this story. And why are you bringing up something from almost five years ago.
Last month Kate left the RAF reception and did not meet with the veterans but a few days later was able to spend hours on end on consecutive days at Wimbledon. What’s the excuse for this? Tennis is more important than recognizing the military? Kate is showing us her priorities and they are not serving others. This is why the tabloids need to invent matriarch Kate stories because she isn’t actually doing anything.
@Nic919. She was at church and at the fly past with the veterans. She came out of maternity leave and attended most of the day. Only thing she missed was a short reception with the veterans at the end of the day. Louis and her other children were at Buckingham Palace. Maybe she had to breastfeed Louis. Or something else. Who knows.
I think if the veterans and the queen are not bothered why are you.
And she never said tennis was more important. She went to both.
She isn’t doing anything because she is on maternity leave. And even if she wasn’t tabloids would invent stories. That’s the nature of the tabloids.
If she had to BF Louis, who was at Buckingham palace per your comment, she easily could have done so and returned to the reception. But that also doesn’t explain her consecutive Wimbledon appearances.
Look – she doesn’t work that much. Period. Maternity leave, Malta excuse, country life – there is always an excuse for why she doesn’t work as much as she probably should. And maybe some of those excuses are valid. But the point is, she doesn’t work that much.
@Becks1 Yes Louis was there. There was a picture on instagram with all three children at the window. Baby was in nanny’s arms. Reception was directly after flypast. So if kate was breastfeeding she would have been ready when the reception would have been over. I don’t know if she did. I only said maybe. Fact is she was there for most of the day. Just like wimbledon. Both a couple of hours.
They only started doing full time royal work since last year and moved back to london. Before that william was in the army and they lived in Anglessy. After that he was a ambulance pilot in Norfolk. She had three children in five years with difficult pregnancies. It’s not excuses but reality. You can agree or not with it but the queen does and that is what counts.
None of us have no idea what the Queen approves of or doesn’t. The one thing we have always been told is that the royals set their own schedules. No one makes Anne do 600 engagements a year, and no one makes William and Kate be as lazy as they are.
Neither William, Kate nor Harry are hard-working royals but, along with the Queen, they are the most popular members of the BRF. Once a year (in late December / early January) the work numbers are published and the headlines point out that the older royals outwork the younger royals. The story lasts the news cycle but it has not made a dent in the Cambridges and Harry’s popularity, so there is no ” lazy, do nothing image” in need of repair.
P. S.
The stories I’ve seen about the Mustique trip have used phrasing like “well-deserved”.
The “well deserved” phrase for their vacations is pretty new though. Remember “throne idle” last year?
I stated that “well-deserved” phrasing was being used regarding the [recent] Mustique trip and did not state or imply that it is ongoing.
My point is that despite interludes where stories are run that the younger royals are work shy, overall they are viewed positively and, rightly or wrongly, the “lazy, do nothing image” has not stuck.
@aaa I see your point, but I think that image of being lazy WAS starting to stick in a bad way and then last year they both stepped it up (for them at any rate) which I think helped. Also people like babies. Had Kate done the exact same number of engagements but not had a baby I don’t think the vacation would be called “well deserved.” But who knows at this point.
The thing I come back to is this. Kate has not received the Royal Family Orders.
“Marriage into the Royal Family does not automatically bestow the Order. Although Diana, Princess of Wales was known to have received the Order (and, more recently, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Cornwall were pictured wearing it), neither Sarah, Duchess of York, Princess Michael of Kent, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge nor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has received the order. A biological relationship to the monarch does not automatically bestow the Order either. None of the current monarch’s granddaughters have been seen to hold the order.”-Wikipedia
Sophie married in 1999 got hers in 2004. Camilla married in 2005 and got hers in 2007. Anne has it, Birgitte, Katharine, and Alexandra also have it.
7 years later and the future Queen Consort does not. The Queen decides who gets it. If I were Kate I would find a way to get it. Fergie is Fergie so of course, she doesn’t have it. PM of Kent is the same. Meghan is new. If I were her I wouldn’t want to be grouped with Fergie and Michael.
So when everyone claims we are being mean or picky about her work ethic the point is that TQ apparently agrees. She can turn this around though.
Kate has not recieved the family orders… So?. Maybe kate doesn’t care about family orders. If it is based on doing more engagements and she knows that and she hasn’t done more engagements it is clear that she doesn’t care otherwise she would have done more engagements. IMO
IMO Kate not having the RFO is tied to her lack of work but I don’t think it means that the Queen disapproves of Kate’s lack of work. The Queen has signaled her esteem for Kate via gestures letting Kate wear her engagement bracelet and being photographed chauffeuring Kate and her mother around Balmoral.
@aaa
Yes it is tied to work. But she can improve that. I don’t think TQ dislikes her at all but she has to clock more hours. She just does. If only for appearance sake.
Oh Kate cares about the royal family orders lol.
ETA my guess is she will get them relatively soon and Meghan will get them shortly after that, if her engagements hold steady and/or pick up significantly. But I think the Queen will give them to Kate first.
@Becks1 No she doesn’t care. If she cared she would have done more engagements (if that is the criteria for getting one).
So since Kate doesn’t have an order from the Queen, that’s proof Kate doesn’t care about having one @Nonnon? Gee, does that sort of logic fly for anyone else? Does that mean all the other royals who haven’t gotten orders didn’t care either?
We don’t know the “significant service to the monarchy” criteria the Queen uses and I’m not convinced she shares precise criteria with candidates in advance either. But I can imagine TQ might have been reluctant to give an order to Kate, who along with Will, has done a pretty low level of work over the years. (Philip sure seemed to be trying to send a msg to somebody in that 2012 interview.) Perhaps TQ isn’t overly distressed over the lack of work. But she may not consider having 3 children in 5 years grounds for an order either. Further, there’s a risk that an order for Kate now could imply there’s no need to ever do more. And as it is, we don’t really know if the Queen approves of the amount of work Kate has done. Claiming she approves of Kate’s workload or dredging up the Malta lie, the phony “two free years” for W&K to settle into marriage (after having lived together), a 6-month maternity leave suddenly being the rule for royals, etc. doesn’t make any of those things true. A willingness to lend jewelry is likely a sign of favor but I’m not sure it’s a stamp of approval for the person’s level of work. And if it IS a stamp of workload approval, and if a sufficient workload IS the one criterion the Queen uses for an order, then where is Kate’s order? Seems to me the simplest answer is TQ hasn’t been happy with Kate’s level of work, at least not to the point of giving her “a medal.” I think it’s also possible TQ doesn’t intend to ever give orders to that generation–she may be leaving that to Charles. That’s a good way to avoid awkwardness with other grandchildren who aren’t working royals including those who’d like to be. But if Kate gets one from her, I wouldn’t be surprised if Meghan also got one fairly quickly (if she maintains her work level and if she and Harry don’t take over the “reluctantly royal” roles W&K played for so long.)
All we really only “know” is that Kate hasn’t worn the family order in public. It is printed on ivory, and given William’s public anti-ivory stance, it would be bad optics for her to wear it if she did receive it.
The Queen drives everyone around Balmoral who is staying there. My minister preached at Crathie Church a couple of years ago and stayed at Balmoral for the weekend and the Queen drove her to a family barbecue. It is what the Queen does and does not mean that the Middletons are getting special favours.
It is bad from Kate’s POV she has not received the Order. Says it all really.
I suspect that any future royal family orders, no matter who they are given to, will no longer be printed on ivory. The UK has a virtually complete ban on ivory sales as of April 2018, and it would be a terrible piece of PR to award an ivory order to any female royal.
Eh if you get an invitation to Balmoral and the Queen chauffeurs you around I would consider that a big deal. When the Queen is up at Balmoral she hosts family, politicians and religious figures and she is considered a considerate host, so while I can believe that it was not a rarity for the Queen to chauffeur around her guests, her chauffeuring around Kate and her mother and allowing it to be photographed is meaningful.
If Kate had the orders, she would wear them. They are a big deal. And its often remarked upon at formal events that she doesn’t have the orders. My guess is that she assumes she’ll get them eventually but its starting to look weird that she doesn’t have them yet (and no, its not just the Kate critics on CB who think that.)
Anyone will tell you the Queen don’t play games, she loves her grandchildren, I’m not saying Harry is her favorite, she will put out the welcome mat for their spouses, and if she feels like going the extra mile, she will.
I think they’re leaving out Charles and Camilla, who Meghan seems quite comfortable with and they with her. And I think they were the first family members she met.
I think Meghan is getting on with her life, trying to keep away from the toxicity of the Markles
Charles and Camilla made it a point to visit KP when their tour ended and Tom was first starting his nonsense prior to the wedding. They have been observed speaking to Meghan quite a bit in public. Not sure why Camilla got excluded from this list of helpers when she is the more obvious person to be offering help to Meghan.
And Meghan and Camilla seem to get along well. You are right Nic919, Camilla is in a good position to offer advice to Meghan.
The People article is BS. That mag has really turned into a tabloid. I expect the Queen is supportive. It looks that way but that hardly makes the Queen one of Meghan’s “closest friends.” If the Queen is “friends” with anyone in the family (which I doubt–as others have said, she’s the boss) she’s friends with Sophie and that relationship developed over the course of many years, not over a few months time. I expect Kate is friendly toward Meghan. It would be pretty awkward for her not to be especially when Harry is present. But I doubt Meghan and Kate are “close” and I doubt Kate has been regularly calling her from Mustique to offer Kate’s brand of special “future Queen” support. And in the lead-up to the wedding I expect Kate was busy with Louis. Meghan has been dealing with her family all her life and people who have been in Meghan’s life longer than Kate (including Harry) likely already knew about her family situation. I just don’t see why she’d turn to Kate instead, Kate who had the perfect family growing up. (We know she had a perfect family, she and the Midds have told us often enough.) That’s not to say they dislike each other or are rivals. But just because they are married to brothers doesn’t mean they’ll ever be best friends either.
@Lizabeth – +1,000
Kate can’t be the huge help they’re crediting her with being seeing as she’s been in Mustique for what 3 weeks now. I’m sure they get on well enough, for sister in laws, but they sudden increase in Kate the saviour artices of late, have me very suspicious.
It is overkill. They are trying to make it look like Kate is doing emotional labour even while on holiday. She’s not.
I think it’s like when you start a new job and you’re so overwhelmed by the change in culture and workload and as close as you are to your high school bestie, she is a stay at home mom and just doesn’t understand what you’re going through and when you try to explain to her she doesn’t understand and so you form immediate bonds w the people that work in your circle that get what you’re going through. They’re not REPLACING your life long bestie but proximity and timing is EVERYTHING.
Yes I FEEL HER PAIN if you can’t tell. Lol.
At least it’s a little bit better than the fake rivalry narrative, still fake but better. If I were to guess, Meghan is being supported by Harry and possibly Charles and Camilla and her close friends like Jessica and of course her Mother. It is also entirely possible that Meghan is not as troubled by her father’s behaviour as the tabloids are speculating because it is nothing new. She also has a lot of other things to focus on.
Thumbs up to your post, why do you think Prince Charles calls her Tungsten.
As scandals go, this is a hiccup to the BRF.
The problem is the recent Kate and Meghan fan fiction conflicts so directly with the previous reporting where Charles was referring to her as like tungsten because Meghan was so strong even in the pre-wedding chaos. Which is more in line with the Meghan that always made sure to point out that she was not nearly as emotional as her Suits character. It is also more in line with the Meghan we see in public , and what friends like Tom Bradby have said on the record. Meghan is the one that emotionally stabilizes Harry. I’m sure Meghan feels betrayed and and devastated by her father, but this is a woman with life experience. A woman who is also good at networking and seems to have fostered relationships throughout the Royal family from the Queen down.
This is really too much. I don’t know about Kate, but it should be very obvious that the Queen is nobody’s “closest friend”. Her closest friends, many of whom are now deceased, are not granddaughters-in-law. One was her lifelong dresser, another was her sister and her cousin, her husband, and a few others in the close social circle she grew up in. Her granddaughters-in-law by no stretch of the imagination are her “closest friends”. She doesn’t operate that way, she never has. Even I know that.
The media are desperate to keep stories going until H&M show up again. This author hasn’t a shred of inside knowledge.
Well said!
Pretty soon the headlines will be so desperate it will be Meghan had a glass of water! They will write an entire paragraph on all the aspects of the said drink of water.
And it will be water Kate introduced Meghan to!
Theory! I think all of these “Kate and Meghan and Queenie are BFFs 4 Eva”, is coming from Harry and Will. I think they want to show that they’re a united family to stop any of the tabloid gossip about rivalries.
Also I have been hearing that Meghan and Harry have spent little time in London and have been out in Oxfordshire and Soho farmhouse since their engagement. I don’t think Meg or Kate would have had so many opportunities to get together. Kate just had a baby and two young children.
Visit Richard Palmer’s Twitter page from two days ago and have and read his counsel to Harry and Meghan.
Was it the one where he is moaning that the palace is keeping the press from Meghan and reporters can’t eavesdrop when she is talking to John Q. Public.
Meghan’s people need to stop calling the press. Kate always and only has two besties: her mom and her sister.
This would never come from Meghan. She’s not a weak person and I doubt she’d want to be described as sad and needy. The last thing most people want is pity. JMO
@Helen Smith Yes her mother and sister are important to her. But those are not her only “besties”. She has close friends like emilia, sophie, hannah, trini, laura to name a few.
This is beginning to sound White Savior-esque. Eye roll.
Good for them being a support for each other!
Eh I don’t think Kate and Carole are plotting anything or dislike Meghan. I think she loves that Meghan was an American and not some London society girl. Meghan doesn’t have any ties or friendships with any of William’s exes or flings, so I doubt Kate is jealous of her. Now had Harry married Cressida Bonas or whatever her name was, I think that would have been a different story.