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'A California girl' : how Meghan Markle's home state shaped her identity
The Guardian ^ | Dec 2017 | Rory Carroll

Posted on 12/31/2017 5:29:36 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose

Much has been made of Markle’s native country, her race and her divorce – but her ‘confidence and social ease’ prove she is above all a Californian.

She seems to be an appropriate ambassador for things that Californians hold dear,” said William Deverell, a historian of the American west at the University of Southern California. “Her poise and confidence and social ease; it’s not perfect out here but we have a more equitable view of life.”

British viewers of her televised interview with Prince Harry marvelled at how she appeared so informal and relaxed, so un-Windsor, while viewers in Los Angeles took it for granted.

“LA kids like that are not fazed by fame,” said Colleen Dunn Bates, author of the book Talk Like a Californian. “They’re not star-struck. She grew up not being impressed by celebrities so she’s not intimidated. She can see him as a person and not a celebrity.”

The cliche of southern Californians being relaxed had truth, said Dunn Bates, whose own daughters attend Markle’s old high school, the all-girl Immaculate Heart in Los Feliz, near Hollywood. “We’re an informal people. We have our own language and dress casually.”

But Californians also work hard, not least those in the entertainment industry. “She saw her dad busting his butt,” said Dunn Bates, referring to Thomas Markle, a TV lighting director. “The path she chose – actress – is very hard. You have to be very disciplined about it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: california; hollywood; losangeles; markle; meghanmarkle; princeharry; royals; royalwedding; unitedkingdom
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To: Reily
Noooooooooooooo....this is even worse than Wallis!

At least Mrs. Simpson had lived in the UK, mingled with aristos and Royals and knew how to behave in public.

This trash, old Rachel/Megan, is worse than clueless and has DEMANDED all kinds of things already and is balking on signing a pre-nup, which the Queen has demanded be signed!

21 posted on 12/31/2017 5:49:04 PM PST by nopardons
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Fat Bottomed Girls

Make the Rockin World go round.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0


22 posted on 12/31/2017 5:49:26 PM PST by Zeneta
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To: tennmountainman

Yee-haw! Ignorance.


23 posted on 12/31/2017 5:50:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: gaijin

They look like Americans.


24 posted on 12/31/2017 5:52:41 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Her mama has a nose ring and dreadlocks. The Queen will not be amused.


25 posted on 12/31/2017 5:53:02 PM PST by LydiaLong
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To: BenLurkin

Which part?


26 posted on 12/31/2017 5:53:20 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

The Queen’s ancestor, Queen Charlotte, was black.


27 posted on 12/31/2017 5:54:10 PM PST by LydiaLong
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To: nopardons

You’re right!
I was going to add she seems to have much less class then Wallis. Not that I think that at least by my standards Wallis had much class.


28 posted on 12/31/2017 5:54:10 PM PST by Reily
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To: BenLurkin

The Brits can keep her.... we don’t want her back.


29 posted on 12/31/2017 5:55:01 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: BenLurkin

“She’s homely. And dumpy. And a lefty.”

And stick legs of a vegan/bulemic. Good luck Hairy.


30 posted on 12/31/2017 5:55:22 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: BenLurkin

“She’s homely. And dumpy. And a lefty.

Michelle?


31 posted on 12/31/2017 5:57:50 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: gaijin

I hope that’s not a roll away bed under her arm!


32 posted on 12/31/2017 5:59:12 PM PST by heshtesh
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To: LydiaLong

Or so PBS claims based on the PBS narrator’s interpretation of a poem from that era.

As such passes for genetic analysis in the modern world of PBS!


33 posted on 12/31/2017 6:01:17 PM PST by Reily
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To: BenLurkin

“They look like Americans.”

Exactly, and as a California girl, I am very-very excited for this Royal Wedding. Its going to be beautiful.


34 posted on 12/31/2017 6:01:25 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: nopardons

“And Harry is an utter moron to be henpecked already! “

More like pussy whipped. A French chaffeur may be in her future.


35 posted on 12/31/2017 6:04:03 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: GoldenState_Rose
Please be kinder, people. I've had to deal with this issue in my own family, and it's very difficult to accept. I prayed that Harry would find someone to love, not that I take credit for my prayer being answered, and it isn't what I expected, but I would try to be kind to her.
36 posted on 12/31/2017 6:04:25 PM PST by Aliska
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To: Terry L Smith

HORSEPUCKY!!

The British royals can do a lot better than an American ex-pat liberal mulatto.


Amen!


37 posted on 12/31/2017 6:05:23 PM PST by KMac1945
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To: GoldenState_Rose

OH. This is important stuff.


38 posted on 12/31/2017 6:05:24 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Apparently, old Hairy didn’t do his due diligence.


39 posted on 12/31/2017 6:05:27 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: LydiaLong

Not really; it just a rumor and IF true...was, at the most, an octtoroon.


40 posted on 12/31/2017 6:08:54 PM PST by nopardons
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