Anonymous wrote:I'm generally ambivalent about the royals (I think the Kate hate posts are kind of ridiculous), but I think Meghan putting out her tongue when photographed with the her future in-laws was gross and tacky. Really gross and really tacky.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meghan-markle-shows-playful-side-11750660

Oh please. It's not the classiest thing ever, but "really gross and tacky." It's just silly.

Anonymous wrote:She is crazy to marry him. She has to live over there and deal with snooty uptight royals who will try to control her every move including how she raises her children. Will she be able to teach them about their non royal heritage or will everything be white washed? She will be far from her mother with limited freedom due to press and security issues. No man is worth that isolation. She should bail before the plates are printed.

She's not "bailing." You don't seem to understand that royal money buys many things. Her mother can visit whenever she wants, and Prince Harry can find a grace and favour cottage for her anyplace in London or the Commonwealth. She can certainly teach the children about her heritage. If anyone of you cared to watch the Queen's Christmas Day address, the choir who introduced and end the speech was composed of children from many heritages, including several singing "God Save the Queen" in hijabs. You may be less evolved than the British monarchy to think that Meghan will have anything other than a very nice life.

I find MM very basic. Kate Middleton too.

I'm generally ambivalent about the royals (I think the Kate hate posts are kind of ridiculous), but I think Meghan putting out her tongue when photographed with the her future in-laws was gross and tacky. Really gross and really tacky.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meghan-markle-shows-playful-side-11750660

She is crazy to marry him. She has to live over there and deal with snooty uptight royals who will try to control her every move including how she raises her children. Will she be able to teach them about their non royal heritage or will everything be white washed? She will be far from her mother with limited freedom due to press and security issues. No man is worth that isolation. She should bail before the plates are printed.

Sorry Meghan haters, I don't care for her, but that face is adorable. I do agree however that she appears clingy and insecure. Maybe that will change once she's married.

Anonymous wrote:Kate's looking good here. She should not diet herself silly after she has the baby. The anorexic look does not suit her.

+1.

There are some deeply unhinged and unhappy women on this thread. I think Harry and Meghan look lovely and she seems a bit nervous (who wouldn't be?) but is not hiding her spark at Sandringham. They suit just as William and Kate suit. I wish them a happy life together.

BTW, MM was never Catholic even though she went to Catholic schools and didn't convert to Judaism when she married the first time. Not that it matters since Harry and the Queen - as the head of the Church of England - don't appear to give a rat's a$$ unlike the harpies here.

Kate's looking good here. She should not diet herself silly after she has the baby. The anorexic look does not suit her.

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Anonymous wrote:Megan Markle and Kate Middleton are both gorgeous and stylish in different ways. But most important, they both seem down-to-earth and normal... unlike the haters on DCUM.

Yes. Every down-to-earth woman I know wore a $75,000 dress in her engagement photos.

You can be wealthy AND down-to-earth. Sorry you didn't know that.

Good thing she targeted a rich guy.

You do realize she's independently wealthy, right?

If you are referring to her basic-cable TV "career" and her father's lottery win 28 years ago, yes. Beyond that, no.

Lol! She's independently wealthy now. In about 6 months, she's going to become filthy rich and royal. Go Meghan--show them how it's done!

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Anonymous wrote:Megan Markle and Kate Middleton are both gorgeous and stylish in different ways. But most important, they both seem down-to-earth and normal... unlike the haters on DCUM.

Yes. Every down-to-earth woman I know wore a $75,000 dress in her engagement photos.

You can be wealthy AND down-to-earth. Sorry you didn't know that.

Good thing she targeted a rich guy.

You do realize she's independently wealthy, right?

If you are referring to her basic-cable TV "career" and her father's lottery win 28 years ago, yes. Beyond that, no.

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Anonymous wrote:Megan Markle and Kate Middleton are both gorgeous and stylish in different ways. But most important, they both seem down-to-earth and normal... unlike the haters on DCUM.

Yes. Every down-to-earth woman I know wore a $75,000 dress in her engagement photos.

You can be wealthy AND down-to-earth. Sorry you didn't know that.

Good thing she targeted a rich guy.

You do realize she's independently wealthy, right?

Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is so bizzare because by pure statistics someone like Ivanka Trump or Olivia Palermo would've theoretically had better odds of marrying a Prince than someone like Meghan Markle. The fact that Meghan snagged freaking Prince Harry while all of us UMC white women with our good breeeding, social standing are here marrying ordinary nobodies living lives of mediocrity is depressing. Why not me? If Meghannhad the chance, I actually could have too! Except I don't know anyone who is as striking and good looking as her. Her looks helped her out of poverty. Cinderella story indeed.

WTF are you babbling on about? Poverty?

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is so bizzare because by pure statistics someone like Ivanka Trump or Olivia Palermo would've theoretically had better odds of marrying a Prince than someone like Meghan Markle. The fact that Meghan snagged freaking Prince Harry while all of us UMC white women with our good breeeding, social standing are here marrying ordinary nobodies living lives of mediocrity is depressing. Why not me? If Meghannhad the chance, I actually could have too! Except I don't know anyone who is as striking and good looking as her. Her looks helped her out of poverty. Cinderella story indeed.

You've been reading too many tabloids. Meghan didn't grow up in poverty. She grew up middle class in a solidly middle class neighborhood (Windsor Hills), and she attended private school her entire life. Her mother is also a USC graduate.

Seriously. What is this nonsense about "white trash" that some other PP was spewing? You are absolutely right. Not to mention, she graduated from Northwestern - a school which the haters couldn't even dream of being accepted to.

Anonymous wrote:Have many women (assuming mostly white) really grown up entertaining fantasies of marrying a prince?

I’m a black woman, in my late 30s—wanting to marry a prince never ever crossed my mind growing up. (Actually, never wanted to get married or have kids, but that’s another story—and ended up married with a kid anyway ). So not jealous at all about Markle marrying a prince, and have never followed news of British royals etc.—all the posts about her “game” and “snagging” a prince here surprise me. I do think they look like a nice couple, and have been following this story a bit given the “controversy” she’s half black and American.

Is marrying a prince really a fantasy many of y’all have grown up with? Or just the people posting here?

Just wanted to mention that the only people who think Megan Markle and Kate Middleton had a "game" or plan to "snag" a royal, are the extremely bitter and jealous haters here in good ol' DCUM-land. Normal, well-balanced people simply see couples who love each other and were lucky enough to marry the right person. I'm always amazed and perplexed at the posters who have such contempt for happy couples, regardless of whether they're royals, celebrities, or average people. It's so telling - the haters are deeply unhappy people who are consumed with envy.

But back to your question - I'm in my 40's and never really had a fantasy of marrying a royal. I just think it's fun to follow their lives from a distance. But I certainly don't take it all so seriously, as some of these wackos do.