It’s always worth noting that there are deep fissures between the British media and the Windsors about whether the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are actually “wanted” back in the UK. The Windsors have insisted: no, the Sussexes are not wanted, especially not now, when they’ve been so successful outside of the UK. The British media is like: actually, we would love to have them back so we can abuse them mercilessly and they can save our industry and give us content. This has come to a head again this week – courtiers were reportedly “pleased” that Meghan didn’t join Harry during his 25-hour trip to the UK, all while King Charles made a point of meeting with Harry for less than an hour. Meanwhile, the media was screaming “where’s Meghan, why didn’t she come with Harry, she might even be warmly welcomed back, she should WANT to come back.”
Meanwhile, Meghan is protecting her peace and raising her children. Well, the Daily Mail paid a huge amount for these exclusive photos and ran them with this overwrought headline: “Meghan Markle flashes a smile as she breaks cover near her $14m Montecito home as Prince Harry flies home from London after meeting with King Charles amid his cancer diagnosis.”
EXCLUSIVE: Meghan Markle can't stop smiling as she's seen for the first time since Prince Harry met with cancer-stricken King Charles https://t.co/dHVOTGc7vx pic.twitter.com/yEoDStQCaO
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) February 8, 2024
The Mail doesn’t really have anything to add other than these pics were taken on Wednesday (while Harry was flying home) and that she was driving a Range Rover and sipping from a coffee mug. The Mail says Meghan was driving on “Los Angeles area roads,” yet the headline says “near her $14m Montecito home.” Which is it, because Montecito is hours away from LA? Anyway, the Derangers are having a fit, predictably. This is currently the top story on the Mail Online too. “No one cares about Harry & Meghan, they’re so unimportant!” Meanwhile, a woman driving in California is top news in Britain and every British newspaper did a liveblog tracking Harry’s movements for three full days.
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“breaks cover”? lmao. You know who broke cover yesterday? William. He’s the one who has been hiding for weeks. You know how didn’t break cover? the California duchess who is just going about her business living her life.
Ikr?
Exactly.
Clearly, in the first pic, Meghan is not driving the Range Rover. She’s sitting in the backseat. One of her security detail guys is driving the vehicle. I see the second pic, Meg is driving. Blimey! 🫡 As far as ‘smiling,’ Duchess Meghan’s expression tells me that she’s securely enveloped in her peace! Back the F off all youse crazy haters, and salty isle desperados. 🫷🏽🫳🏽 🕳
Or, that is supposedly Meghan in the second pic. When and where was it taken? 🙄 We know the paps constantly hound the Sussexes, largely unsuccessfully. Plus, the DF et al BM pay top dollar and hoard pics of the ‘irrelevant Duchess’ to release at specific times in order to float nasty narratives.
As a few sane commenters on X have pointed out, there is torrential rain in southern California, and not a drop of wetness in sight in the papped pic. The clowns and haters swarming the X comment section need to seek help, fast. 😳
Celebitchy just used photos of Meghan in a car, the actual photos are at the daily mail link / twitter embed. I’m sure Celebitchy didn’t want to pay for the actual photos which hardly even show her face.
It’s been pouring rain in California – we were soaked on Wednesday. These photos aren’t from this week.
@bean
Wow… Thanks for this information
Bingo!
Megan needs sovereign grant funds. The British press makes a fortune off her. She needs a cut.
She moved away and they told her to give back the prince. Yet, they still follow her. She needs a regular check at this point.
“Can’t stop smiling”? She is holding a mug in front of her face. Where’s the smile? And she “broke cover”? No, that would be PW. I’m sure Meghan is out and about many times living her private life.
Wasn’t Camilla smiling and won’t 🛑
The 👑 was smiling when he left the 🏥 and after the meeting with Harry
Will smiling with Tom Cruise
Beatrice smiling when she visited King
Fergie smiling in Miami
The top story should be Will coming 🔙 to work and he’s with an a lister also but that story is already towards the bottom on the side of the daily fail
But who gets top billing
Once again proving California right in the documentary when the royals was jealous when Meghan was the top story even with all of them in the same room
Megan sipping on her own ☕ and being totally unbothered
I know…all those jackasses are smiling, but because she has a pleasant look on her face, she’s again bringing down the monarchy.
My God, those people are the worst!
Remember how they talked about “crocodile tears” when she cried at her grandma-in-law’s funeral? She was legit mourning one of the only nice in-laws she had and they were jerks about it.
I think it’s obvious, Meghan is smiling because she is on the phone with Harry. Good grief.
And William’s teeth were showing mightily in a lot of the pics of him. Was he not grinning? Maybe he was snarling.
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Is it 14M or 15M? Lived in LA and frequently went to the Montecito area – can confirm Montecito is NO WHERE NEAR Los Angeles. Literally hours away unless you’re trying to get to the northern- most part of LA area (not even the city proper), and even then, it’s at least an hour and a half without traffic. That’s like saying she was driving in Philly when she was in NYC.
They need to print the current mark value and truly blow those haters small brains 🧠. I am starting to believe Chuck called him to come over just to let the Rota use it to attack Prince Harry and his family again with fresh hate filled headlines and shows. They are all acting like sharks on a feeding frenzy and it’s nauseating to witness.
and Harry wasn’t smart enough to avoid the bait
Or maybe this wasn’t a game for him and he simply wanted to lay eyes on his father who had just told him he had cancer.
@Cessily, I disagree. If Harry didn’t go, there would be bigger stories about how cruel he is. Especially when he goes to Canada for Invictus. I believe, they are angry that they lost a few weeks of coverage shrieking about how Harry doesn’t care about his dying father.
@Em — really? He went to see his father who has cancer. No bait involved. And Harry is damn smart, he got out of that cesspool and has had nothing but success ever since.
Cessily, no. Harry going is what has them in knots. They wanted him NOT to go so they could lean into he went to Canada but not to see his father. Harry is a genius. He made them dump all those stories.
Em, are you a deranger? You sound like one. Sorry, hon, Harry’s a genius.
“Area” is doing a lot of work, here. 😂
@AMEERA 100% this. Some people just for some reason can’t grasp that a son with only one living parent would want to see his father who was diagnosed with cancer with his own eyes — it’s insane. We can all talk about what we would do but if you’re not in his shoes you have no room to judge.
And, that it’s possible that a flawed father, recently diagnosed with serious health issues, might have genuinely wanted to spend some precious time with the only son (only person?) who might truly love him for himself.
I completely agree with you. At this point, Charles’ motivations are his own and Harry’s are his as well, and I for one would not like to be in the position months or years from now of saying “I wish I’d done this while I had the chance.”
Whether it was ‘bait’ or not, Harry did the right thing for him. That’s what is important, not how some derangers want to twist it and make it ugly.
@Nutella Shout out to Ventura County and the more than one million acre Los Padres National Forest. You know, the the things between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara Counties. (sent from my London home in the Cotswolds 🤥)
@ Charlie: Oh, stop it! Facts? Don’t befuddle those poor guys! 🙂
@Charlie–😂😂😂😂😂
LOL!
How dare Meghan live her life while the king has cancer, Kate has God only knows what, and William appears drunk in public (after going missing for weeks)!
Exactly! The audacity of her to *gasp* sip something in the privacy of her own car! Brazen of her.
I hope that truck is armored.
Will looked drunk or on some kind of medication with adverse effects: like,somnlonence, constant eyes blinking allegedly. He was out of it. Probably he had many cold baths and coffee and red bull to make him presentable for the evening gala yesterday.
Thank you Brassy Rebel. I mean the effing nerve of them. Making it seem like Meghan is callous and giggling about her children’s grandfather’s cancer. All I see is a woman drinking from a mug while driving! Wtf. They are really sick over there. The way they try to whip up a hate frenzy over Meghan every time. They are obsessed and need help. I assume this translates beyond work and into their personal lives. Like they go home from work and hate Meghan. Sickos.
Isn’t there a significant severe weather event happening in California? Is it likely these are pictures from this week?
No, we had sun Wednesday morning/early afternoon, then the rain came back.
Yes, but was the ground ever dry?
Yes, it was dry yesterday and sunny all day until it started raining in the evening
Except for the potholes, the streets all look like there was never a major weather event today, and it rained last night. SoCal is freaky like that.
The actual headline in the Daily Fail was “MEGHAN BREAKS COVER”. I was like, cue the freaking apocalypse. She goes out of her house like a bajillion other women and the Fail thinks that’s front page material. If that’s the best the they got going for them, they’ll be in the rear view mirror before the year is out.
I think that’s indicative of how they think of her–and every other human being they write about–as prey.
Good for Meg, live your life and be happy. You have nothing to be ashamed of. You did nothing wrong. The British media and its royal sickos can suck it
Red alert!! So she had the audacity to drive her car. These people are so desperate to cover for their MIA Can’t. Come on gutter press you know what’s going on with Can’t is a much better story so one of you should grow a pair and let everyone know what’s up. Meg driving really that’s big news? GIVE US CAN’T.
Her husband was safe and on his way home to her, OF COURSE SHE WAS SMILING.
I wish Meghan nothing but happiness and success and peace . The British media and the Royal sickos can suck it .
Meghan broke cover? Excuse me, it was William who broke cover yesterday with his half minute of two appearances before running back to his bolt hole.
Can you imagine how the UK media is going to cover the One Year Countdown event next week in Canada 😩
It will be so unhinged considering all the other “important” royals will be absent for over a month.
Ugh!!
Yeah, despite the Invictus games being a huge success, I worry about all the crap they’ll write. They always manage to make a negative twist out of the good things H&M does.
Mads, I agree that they will write all kinds of negative articles, because they evidently don’t care how they look to the global press. There is a very concerted effort to make the UK a very isolated place. The question is who is behind that?
These are really terrible pictures. It’s so stupid.
So unbelievably stupid.
Right? And now we can add driving a RANGE ROVER, and drinking coffee to her long list of crimes – along with crossing her legs, having nice things that she pays for, shutting her car door, having a baby shower IN NEW YORK, smiling, referring to her husband as her husband, touching her pregnant belly, having a lot of bathrooms, living in a mansion (that she and her husband pay for) and so on.
When will this woman’s crime spree come to an end? Lock your doors!! No one is safe from it!!!
I lol’d loudly at “having nice things that she pays for”. Well done 👏
Lovin’ Meghan’s “crime spree” 😂 👏 !
Their headline should be changed to “Daily Fail pays way too much money to paparazzi who doesn’t use polarizer filter.”
So she was seen driving her own car that she paid for…groundbreaking
More than anything, despite what they may say, the BM desperately wants Meghan to come over and most importantly for her to bring the kids.
And what a gorgeous smile it is! 😍
I love this for Meghan. She wasn’t even allowed to drive in the UK.
That photo is so grainy. How do they even know it’s her? I can’t tell.
Oh no, woman drives car! Such a brazen hussy. Watch the British media melt with rage.
The nerve of that bloody woman smiling while she drove an expensive car while she was in hiding. Did she escape or they let her go? Those Rats are truly exhausting.
I saw a photo of William yesterday: he was smiling. Both his father and wife are ill. WTF is wrong with the man /s.
Old pictures, Montecito is flooded and it was raining on Wednesday.
This. They probably have a stockpile of photos of Meghan running errands that they whip out whenever they want to negatively spin something.
There was a storm warning in LA even up to last night (2/7). It’s been raining steadily (atmospheric river, anyone)? up and down the CA coast for days. That pix of her in sunglasses in a dry car is not from this week. Google rain and Santa Barbara – sheesh. She got the sense not to travel in the rain, near debris flows, eroding cliffsides and coastal flooding. But the tabloids purpose is never accuracy but to foment outrage against Meghan and Harry among those who have zero critical thinking skills.
See what @christine said above. Sounds like she lives there. Rain in an area doesn’t mean rain everywhere – even in a storm. I lived in Miami and the conditions could differ wildly between only a few miles (bone dry in Kendall, Flooding in Little Havana).
This is David Attenborough speaking, very quietly, I’m down in the British countryside to witness the awakening of the slow moving (and slow brained) British sloth. He has been hibernating for many weeks, but as with all sloths of this nature he was actually throwing pillows at his young and his mate. He has cleaned down his plumage and oh but Waite, is that a comb over or a transplant on that’ head well never mind that now. His wanderings will bring him into contact with others but due to the lack of daylight we will see him bob, weave and display those remarkably large teeth. People who get close must be careful of that bite! Here we have another male sloth greeting him and looking like they both have the same outer pelts, but the other sloth though smaller, seems to have a larger unruly pelt on his head. Of they go to gather some food, after the usual rituals performed at this time, before they will dissappear back to their Burrows for another few weeks. Lazy bsd. Richard Attenborough signing off
^^ 🤌🏼👌🏽 Word! Thanks @Mary Pester for breaking this Attenborough exclusive about those slimy, lazy, disappearing British sloths! 😘
Just brilliant, Mary!
@MaryPester: 👏🏆🥇. Pure gold!
Wow @MaryP what did they give you while you were in hospital? You’re on top form!
🤣👏🏽 Awesome @MaryPester! This is hilarious! And beautifully well done!
The rain in southern CA is very different from rain in Miami. Mountains, mudslides, and sudden floods come out of nowhere.
There were warnings not to be out and about, with many floods and debris everywhere. Not sure how Montecito was hit or not, but just generally speaking, rain there is a very different experience than in Florida.
Santa Barbara County got a big hit, and Montecito is pretty hilly. Mudslides, flash floods, trees down sort of thing. I took a gander at the rainfall totals and Montecito officially got 5″ over the week. Average annual is 16″ for reference. Most people hunkered down and got their go bags ready. But we have had “breaks” up here in NorCal, sounds like they have in central/So Cal as well.
@Mary Pester — hahahahahaaaaaa!!! Brilliant! xo
MaryPester, this is hilarious! xo
“Which is it, because Montecito is hours away from LA?” Yeah they have no clue and they are too busy b*tching and being deranged stalkers to actually check on google maps.
God forbid Meghan go out and run errands while someone 5000 miles away is getting the best care possible. What is she supposed to be doing instead?
A better headline: Daily Mail Breaks Wind
A woman… drives a car… in California?
OMG! The sky is falling!
(I can’t any longer with this crap.) 🙁
Is that Meghan in the second picture, and where is her security? The person is wearing sunglasses, wearing a toque.
They’re such bad photos! I finally realized, yeah, that’s Meghan, but only after looking closely & enlarging the photo. She’s wearing a white ball cap & big sunglasses. And a smile! 😁
Is she supposed to be grim faced all the time because her crappy in-laws aren’t well? The insanity!
Is that Meghan or did the fail hire a look alike? The pic’s are kind of weird.
@Lulu — WTAF?! BTW they aren’t “pic’s”, they are pics (an apostrophe S denotes a possessive, i.e. the car’s driving too fast for “the car is”), and they are not at all weird. Also the Fail is many things but they didn’t hire lookalikes for fake photos. It’s Meghan. Get over it. These photos were likely taken weeks ago but they’re trying to drum up clicks about the indignity of her actually driving a car (and a Land Rover — GASP — to boot) and smiling. It’s pissing rain in that area of Cali now and has been for days. Floods and landslides everywhere.
Do these people live in the real world? The day my Mother died i cried and I also smiled and laughed. Then cried again. Normal people living normal lives can have a variety of emotions even on the saddest of days. A woman living a world away from someone recently diagnosed with cancer doesn’t need to wear black and go into mourning. God these idiotic stories are really getting to me today, I just hope Harry and Meghan either never see them or have learned how to laugh at them.
“American woman drives car while drinking coffee.” As Miranda Priestley wryly said “Groundbreaking!” in The Devil Wears Prada. Though I am slightly I’m nervous seeing Meghan drinking and driving at the same time out of a mug (I know it’s either tea or coffee), it looks like there was a lot of traffic based on the cars around her? I can’t drive and focus on anything else as a nervous driver. Even unscrewing my water bottle and trying to drink at the same time is a whole project. So when I see others doing it so confidently I’m just in awe lol.
VilleRose, I got the impression from that pic that the vehicles aren’t going very fast. It would be easy to grab the cup out of the cupholder and take a sip.
What point are they trying to make by emphasizing it was a “range rover” instead of merely stating suv or simply driving herself. Unlike the royals, Meghan is self-made and wealthy enough to buy her own luxury vehicle (I’ve read on here that the royals are gifted a fleet of Land Rover vehicles).
They’d rather she be driving a Gremlin.
As you said, Caitlin, ‘”She is self made and wealthy enough to buy her own luxury vehicle” and that just eats away at them and drives them crazy. These people are proof positive that the UK is going downhill, rapidly, and the whole world is watching. Well done, Meghan! You are one remarkable woman.