Meghan Markle and Prince Harry News and Updates

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Anonymous wrote:The people who don’t like the MC essay are not a monolith. I don’t hate MM and have previously been horrified by the vitriol at her on this thread. The first couple times I posted here, multiple people accused me of being a PR flak just because I had mildly nice things to say about her.

And I’m very sorry for her loss. Miscarriage is so hard. I also know the pain of marrying and starting a family later in life and wondering if it’s too late. It’s really tough.

But wow that op-ed bothered me. It just felt so tone-deaf and unaware. There is so much loss and grief in the world right now. Had she posted this to her social media or a general interest outlet, I don’t think I would have reacted this way. But while miscarriage is something we should talk about, it’s not news and it’s not a social problem to solve. It just is. There’s no public policy related to MC that needs to be promoted, no money that needs to be raised to prevent or address MC. They just happen.

It is weird to me that MM had an opportunity to write an op-ed in the NYT, a privilege few are afforded, and she chose to talk about a private grief about which nothing much can be done. And she did it in the middle of a public health emergency and at a time when black maternal mortality is a huge problem in the US.

Tone-deaf.

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Well said

It would be like if I wrote a NYT op-ed this week on losing my uncle to cancer earlier this year and kind of loosely tied it to the pandemic. I’m sure people would feel bad for my grief but... what would be the point? My uncle didn’t die of Covid and making that link feels opportunistic at best. His death was and is painful and sad for our family. But many people have lost loved ones this year. It would be such a weird choice to highlight my grief as though it somehow encompasses and reflects everyone else’s. It doesn’t. It’s just mine.

People are still allowed to grieve —even publicly—losses that are not due to Covid. John Lewis and RBQ. We grieved as a nation.

Are you comparing an early MC to the nation losing John Lewis and RBG? Oy vey.

You have no idea whether someone’s early miscarriage was their last chance to have a biological child. People have a right to mourn non-Covid deaths.

She can mourn her loss.

But the world doesn’t need to mourn the loss. It’s not the same as the nation mourning for John Lewis and RBG FFS.

This +1000.

She doesn’t want the world to mourn her loss. That wasn’t the point. She’s trying to reach out to others in similar position. Despite covid, the world keeps marching on. Women have miscarriages, and people experience loss unrelated to covid.

We cannot just be silent to all other traumas.

I think MM is overestimating her influence on people—however.

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Anonymous wrote:She's a fame whore that now has no income. Girl has to make headlines somehow.

Didn’t they get truckloads of money from Netflix?

The same Netflix that produces The Crown based on Harry's family members, living and dead. The show that puts his mother's struggles onscreen for entertainment value after he and his brother have spent years condemning the sensationalism and exploitation of her. The mother Harry said was pursued so mercilessly that he had NO OPTION but to leave public life for the health and safety of his wife.

Yeah, that Netflix.

Soooo.....they did get a truckload of money from the super popular streaming site Netflix?

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Losing a pregnancy sucks, it's not meaningless because the baby wasn't born the minute you find out you're pregnant with a wanted pregnancy he/ she becomes your child and while the pain is different from losing a child you have known for years it's still real.

Trying to take away from it because you don't care for Meghan by saying saying most women have them or copying your friends tragedies makes you foolish.

I cannot stand Meg and Harry I find them self absorbed, immature and tiresome. Even with that I have empathy for their kids.

What I don't understand is why two people who left royal life because of the press and lack of privacy are constantly running to the press. It's ridiculous at this point and oh so apparent they left because they wanted to be the stars of the show and couldn't.

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I feel terrible for poor Meghan. Losing a pregnancy at any stage is difficult.

I think my issue is more that she seems to lack gratitude. She's beautiful, wealthy, powerful, devoted husband. But rather than frame it as "this is hard even with my privilege" she seems to frame it as "my life is so hard please feel bad for me".

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Anonymous wrote:She's a fame whore that now has no income. Girl has to make headlines somehow.

Didn’t they get truckloads of money from Netflix?

The same Netflix that produces The Crown based on Harry's family members, living and dead. The show that puts his mother's struggles onscreen for entertainment value after he and his brother have spent years condemning the sensationalism and exploitation of her. The mother Harry said was pursued so mercilessly that he had NO OPTION but to leave public life for the health and safety of his wife.

Yeah, that Netflix.

Soooo.....they did get a truckload of money from the super popular streaming site Netflix?

No. They got a small upfront payment meant to front expenses for development of a project that has yet to be produced and on which further earnings/payments will be based. So they are clearly still struggling for funds.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She's a fame whore that now has no income. Girl has to make headlines somehow.

Didn’t they get truckloads of money from Netflix?

The same Netflix that produces The Crown based on Harry's family members, living and dead. The show that puts his mother's struggles onscreen for entertainment value after he and his brother have spent years condemning the sensationalism and exploitation of her. The mother Harry said was pursued so mercilessly that he had NO OPTION but to leave public life for the health and safety of his wife.

Yeah, that Netflix.

Soooo.....they did get a truckload of money from the super popular streaming site Netflix?

The way it works is they get a nice advance but have to actually produce at certain levels before getting the full amount. It remains to be seen if this is a boom or bust. Regardless, it makes Harry a great hypocrite to profit off the media he’s spent years condemning not to mention their headline chasing after claiming to want privacy.

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She’s so ridiculously thirsty and desperate — a classic narcissist. She literally stole this entire idea from Chrissy Teigen, so she’s been plotting and choreographing this for 8 weeks. Are you OK Megyn...on royal coattails, shaking down media companies, as an idle rich layabout in your $15 million mansion while much of the nation is laid off and in food lines? A vapid out of touch sociopath.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She's a fame whore that now has no income. Girl has to make headlines somehow.

Didn’t they get truckloads of money from Netflix?

The same Netflix that produces The Crown based on Harry's family members, living and dead. The show that puts his mother's struggles onscreen for entertainment value after he and his brother have spent years condemning the sensationalism and exploitation of her. The mother Harry said was pursued so mercilessly that he had NO OPTION but to leave public life for the health and safety of his wife.

Yeah, that Netflix.

Soooo.....they did get a truckload of money from the super popular streaming site Netflix?

The way it works is they get a nice advance but have to actually produce at certain levels before getting the full amount. It remains to be seen if this is a boom or bust. Regardless, it makes Harry a great hypocrite to profit off the media he’s spent years condemning not to mention their headline chasing after claiming to want privacy.

Hmm well another poster claimed it was such a small amount they would still be struggling. Guess we should plan to see them living on the streets.

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I think Chrissy and other omen that gave late term miscarriages/stillbirths and actually have to go to a hospital to deliver are not in the same category as the first trimester miscarriages. First trimester miscarriages are incredibly common, unlike later miscarriages or babies that die in uterine. Having to see your stillborn baby and having to deliver a baby you know is dead is quite different. Those that make it almost full term or full term like the Real Houswive’s daughter are just so awful.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Chrissy and other omen that gave late term miscarriages/stillbirths and actually have to go to a hospital to deliver are not in the same category as the first trimester miscarriages. First trimester miscarriages are incredibly common, unlike later miscarriages or babies that die in uterine. Having to see your stillborn baby and having to deliver a baby you know is dead is quite different. Those that make it almost full term or full term like the Real Houswive’s daughter are just so awful.

*in utero

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Anonymous wrote:Losing a pregnancy sucks, it's not meaningless because the baby wasn't born the minute you find out you're pregnant with a wanted pregnancy he/ she becomes your child and while the pain is different from losing a child you have known for years it's still real.

Trying to take away from it because you don't care for Meghan by saying saying most women have them or copying your friends tragedies makes you foolish.

I cannot stand Meg and Harry I find them self absorbed, immature and tiresome. Even with that I have empathy for their kids.

What I don't understand is why two people who left royal life because of the press and lack of privacy are constantly running to the press. It's ridiculous at this point and oh so apparent they left because they wanted to be the stars of the show and couldn't.

I said it when they left - I and many others - that they left to make as much $$$ as possible, with racism/family drama/media hostility as the next reason. I still think MM is largely driving the show. If money weren't the reason they could have stayed in England, or come here and stayed out of sight. But they, especially, MM, want the lifestyle, access, relevance, and attention.

The pandemic seems to have put a wrench in their plans though- there is no cohesive strategy for staying relevant/making money. They bought that huge gaudy house, and periodically resurface for random volunteering, laying a wreath, weird Zoom calls, and now a rather offensive NYT column. They seem to be adrift and aimless.

You are obscenely wealthy and don't have to work. Go. Away. At least with the BRF there is some thin veneer of duty that makes the wealth on display a tiny bit less crass and hypocritical.

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Anonymous wrote:This is going to be unpopular, but I don’t think she actually even knew she was pregnant. I think it was so early on in the pregnancy that she wasn’t even aware of the fact. And it wasn’t until the “sharp pain” and subsequent hospital visit that she discovered that she had been pregnant. Had she been pregnant for more than four weeks or so she absolutely would’ve said but that was conveniently left out because it would lessen the sympathy. And I think the entire story surrounding the matter was made up.

Agree. I would guess it was in the 5 -6 week mark, just early enough to know via a missed period but before there is a heartbeat, and when a ton of pregnancies are lost.

Also, and this is worse, but I thought there was some gossip from her "diary of a working actress" days and s$&@xploits that she bragged about supposedly having enough abortions that she could not get pregnant nor carry a child, and that was why there was talk of a surrogate for their 1st baby.

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The way her "miscarriage" was worded made my skin crawl.

She “lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal.” Instead she could have said "I suffered a pregnancy loss late in the summer. Thank you for allowing our family to grieve in private"

I'm not an insensitive person (I have battled infertility for a decade), but I just truly don't believe it's even a miscarriage before 12 weeks. It's so common to lose a baby! Most people don't even realize it has happened. She's older and this is just really common at her age. She is such an attention whore. Just stop posting. You're no longer a princess and no one cares. Get a job.

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Anonymous wrote:The way her "miscarriage" was worded made my skin crawl.

She “lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand. I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal.” Instead she could have said "I suffered a pregnancy loss late in the summer. Thank you for allowing our family to grieve in private"

I'm not an insensitive person (I have battled infertility for a decade), but I just truly don't believe it's even a miscarriage before 12 weeks. It's so common to lose a baby! Most people don't even realize it has happened. She's older and this is just really common at her age. She is such an attention whore. Just stop posting. You're no longer a princess and no one cares. Get a job.

technically it is indeed a miscarriage before 12 wks. you are just ill informed

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I don’t agree with the comments that it was too early to count as a miscarriage. I had a near miscarriage at 7 weeks - I knew I was pregnant and had a sensation that I had wet myself. I went to the bathroom and just had a tremendous amount of discharge - thick and bloody. I began to cry and immediately went to ER.

Thankfully I didn’t lose my baby but the immediate panic and stress during the wait for a confirmation were tremendous and I can’t fathom the heartbreak I would have felt if it had been a loss.

Turns out I have an “incompetent cervix” and had another scare around 20 weeks. I had a cerclage and went on bed rest. Still delivered prematurely however my baby was and is healthy.

The Sussexes should be given the time and space to grieve and heal. I wish them, John and Chrissy, and all who are experiencing this loss nothing but peace and well wishes.