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.”
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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!
Yee-haw! Ignorance.
They look like Americans.
Her mama has a nose ring and dreadlocks. The Queen will not be amused.
Which part?
The Queen’s ancestor, Queen Charlotte, was black.
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.
The Brits can keep her.... we don’t want her back.
“She’s homely. And dumpy. And a lefty.”
And stick legs of a vegan/bulemic. Good luck Hairy.
“She’s homely. And dumpy. And a lefty.
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Michelle?
I hope that’s not a roll away bed under her arm!
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!
“They look like Americans.”
Exactly, and as a California girl, I am very-very excited for this Royal Wedding. Its going to be beautiful.
“And Harry is an utter moron to be henpecked already! “
More like pussy whipped. A French chaffeur may be in her future.
HORSEPUCKY!!
The British royals can do a lot better than an American ex-pat liberal mulatto.
Amen!
OH. This is important stuff.
Apparently, old Hairy didn’t do his due diligence.
Not really; it just a rumor and IF true...was, at the most, an octtoroon.
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