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Meghan and Prince Harry are moving to the U.S./Canada - OFFICIAL
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Anonymous
Their erratic moves would suggest they are both mentally strained. I hope they can find some wise counsel and take some time off, the way they are acting is not helping their cause. |
Anonymous
Your last line is pure speculation and not carried out by recent polling. The one linked many times earlier this thread shows him well down the list of popularity. I do think he was very popular for a while. But after he married Meghan and the initial period of good feelings, his popularity has dropped big time. And it's because the couple haven't been able to do what's expected of them as symbols of the British state. The post a few post up showing how they went to some glamor movie event instead of a Marine concert affiliated with one of Harry's big charities is a telling point. They're clearly not interested in the nitty gritty of dull service and duty and once people figured that out, they started losing a lot of popularity. |
Anonymous
So about 90% of the posts here are likely based on 90% gossip, give or take? |
Anonymous
LOL The Queen and Prince Harry have been the two most beloved members of the royal family for almost a decade. Popularity wise - Meghan and Diana have a global fandom with stars that rose sqiftly. As for Kate - she'll be beloved like the Queen Mother who did nothing, said nothing, and ran up gambling debts til the day she died, then was forgotten. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I think people are really minimizing this. She just...left. I can’t believe she didn’t even stay long enough to work out the details. Some life partner she is. I’m not really sure how Harry respects her at all. He basically has to coddle and cater to her like a preschooler. Must be lonely for him. |
Anonymous
I’d rather be like the Queen Mum than Diana any day. The latter, even when she “escaped”, remained miserable. |
Anonymous
They just took 6 weeks off. When was the last time you took 6 weeks off, in the same year you took maternity leave? |
Anonymous
DP. The expectations were higher of them than Kate and William. The latter were granted time away from the public as newlyweds and as new parents. And I recall Kate spending significant time with her parents after George and Charlotte. The BRF dropped the ball on Harry's marriage, maybe because they thought they were older, more mature who knows. Also, the brotherly conflict has been brewing for a while and it has clearly gone unaddressed. |
Anonymous
People too quickly forget how messy Diana's life was getting in the last few years, especially the last year or so before her death. Her popularity was also falling once she started running around with very unsuitable boyfriends. She was going out with a playboy with a major drug habit! Whatever Diana's problem was, she couldn't make her peace with the world or her circumstances and a large part of it was her own personal instability. |
Anonymous
Not sure about this. If Harry and Meghan had wanted to take a long time to settle in to their marriage, that would have been understood. Meghan announced from the beginning that she wanted to hit the ground running, they took tours while pregnant and with an infant. That was respected but not necessary. And probably not a good idea. |
Anonymous
William and Kate expresses interest in living in Wales, then later Norfolk. They followed the proper channels. They didn’t have a public meltdown and issue an ultimatum. |
Anonymous
The need distance from circumstances that have become too difficult for them to cope with. |
Anonymous
I'm not sure what the expectations were or how they were higher. Kate's received plenty of flak, both in the press and on here, for not doing a lot during her early married years and motherhood years, but I also haven't seen much to show the RF expected Meghan to do a lot more than Kate ever did. They did expect her to perform the royal duties and go on royal tours - which Kate has definitely done. And Meghan did and apparently hated it. I think this all boils down to that the BRF likely thought Harry was moving too quickly into dating and marrying Meghan and was worried and cautious about it, both for Meghan's and Harry's sake, because if anyone knows the realities of being a royal and a royal spouse, it's the BRF, and Harry misread it as them trying to separate him from Meghan. So he saw it as "lack of support" and it snowballed from there. I'm sure there are royals and courtiers who privately expected this to end up like this. Meghan didn't have enough time to understand what she was getting into or how to fit into the royal world and made a lot of mistakes, which she took too personally. But she also apparently doesn't really want the reality of being a royal wife, now that she's had a taste of what it entails - the dull rota of duties, always having to be second fiddle to Kate, deferring to the Queen all the time. Harry's completely in love with her so he's taking her side and he clearly has his own issues with living in the gilded cage. So it's all come out in an explosion. |
Anonymous
Boo freakin hoo. So move to the countryside and have Harry re-enlist. Nobody would object. |
Anonymous
Well now they're asking to be part-time royals as Wills and Kate were for 5 years. People forgot that the Cambridges were basically MIA for so long and William drew a salary as a part-time helicopter pilot during that time. So what's wrong with respecting the same for the Sussexes? |