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Meghan Markle: A Disaster for the British Monarchy
Front page magazine ^ | Feb 13, 2020 | Katie Hopki ns

Posted on 03/29/2021 6:32:51 AM PDT by george76

Like a spider eating her mate, we are now watching His Royal Redback get gobbled up alive...

Tell us about Megxit!’

It’s the question I am most asked when I open the floor for questions after giving a speech about Brexit and the state of Britain.

And my answer is a straight one: Meghan Markle has been an absolute disaster for the British monarchy. Like some gangster, she has committed a smash-and-grab on the Palace, snatching what can be easily sold, trashing anything of sentimental value.

Her latest stunt – pocketing an alleged $500K for ratting out her husband’s mental health issues in front of a crowd of deep-pocketed JP Morgan bankers – is proof of what many of us suspected from day one: that she was only ever in this for the publicity and the cash.

Markle saw an opportunity for stardom and she pounced on it, like a black widow spider eating her mate, the male redback, when she is done. In nature the male spider has a taste for sacrificial sex, flipping his bare abdomen into the hungry female’s mouth during mating. So too at the Palace, where the Prince-Formerly-Known-as-Harry has been consumed by the woman he was desperate to be loved by.

Harry was our favorite prince by far. (Although this may not come as a surprise when you consider he has Prince Andrew for competition, a man who makes Harry Weinstein looks like a charmer.)

Naughty little Harry could be relied on to turn up naked in a jacuzzi in Vegas surrounded by beautiful women in a similar state of undress. He flew helicopters for the army and was deployed in combat in Afghanistan. And later in life, Harry became something much more significant to wounded service personnel, for whom he founded and hosted the Invictus Games to give hope and physical ambition to those disabled by war.

But much more than that, Harry is our little boy. The image of the small child following his mother’s coffin through London with his big brother at his side is seared onto the memory of every Brit, and most Americans I know, too. In that moment every parent took that child to their heart and felt relief that his sensible older brother, William, was there to protect him through this cruelty.

Many wonder why a nation of ordinary people cares about this Royal family at all. To an outsider it makes no sense for a family to be afforded immense wealth, privilege and power simply by virtue of birth, living in palaces funded by the taxpayer, turning up only to smile and wave, to open this and show cursory interest in that.

But, you see, they are much more than the sum of these things. They are part of who we are, something reassuringly constant and enduring in times of endless change. Like a cup of tea, or a red bus, or bad teeth, they are intrinsic to our nation. We all grew up with the Royals. They are the reason my family will all be gathered in my front room at 3 p.m. on Christmas Day – because my mother likes us all to listen respectfully to The Queen’s Speech, just as her mother did, and her mother before her.

The Queen is the best of us, dedicating her life "whether it be short or long" to the service of this little island – a promise she has faithfully delivered for 68 years without pause. Whether serving as a mechanic during the war, or smiling through 14 British prime ministers from Churchill to Thatcher, each thinking they are the most important person in the room, she has been unflinching in her commitment to the British people.

Blue-collar Brits like our Royals are traditionally aloof. We want them to be untouchable. We love that the Queen never shares a political opinion and reins in her emotions so tightly, caught laughing only in unguarded moments when watching her horses race. We love that all her outfits match and that she has a special wave not involving the upper arm.

It is from this place that we judge Meghan Markle, with her over-easy relationship with the cameras and a personal history that is more tabloid than traditional princess. Her tawdry early photoshoots reek of desperation; her own father and sister say much the same. When she was trying to be famous she identified as Caucasian; now she says she is the most colored person in the room.

Lecturing Brits on climate change while boarding yet another private jet, preaching to us about kindness while ignoring her own father, taking a seat in the Royal Box at Wimbledon only to berate the public who tried to photograph her there, making a tour of South Africa only to conclude that the woman she felt most sorry for was herself…

None of us is perfect. But it is Meghan’s off-camera, private actions that set off my own alarm system. I have heard from agents to major stars that Meghan was perpetually stalking their talent in the hope of a moment in the spotlight. A source close to the Palace tells of how, for her first date with Prince Harry, Meghan researched, bought and wore the perfume Princess Diana used to wear. Spiders are cunning creatures and this one spun her web well.

When, after an "extended break" in Canada, Meghan and Harry returned to the UK to announce they were "stepping back" from the Royal Family and giving up their Royal titles and duties, many commentators decided this was a "brave" and "modern" move. "Meghan’s blackness defeats the Royal Family’s whiteness," one headline read, as if color were some kind of competition we didn’t even know we were in.

But the truth is far more ordinary. Meghan and Harry had a choice. They could have stepped back from Royal duties when they got engaged, before enjoying the wedding we paid for, which was watched by 1.9 billion people, and before taking the $2.5 million home we funded. But they did not.

Behind the scenes on their extended break they had been busy trademarking the Royal Sussex brand against products and business activities. Meghan spoke out against the President in defiance of the non-partisan protocol of the Royal family, and footage emerged of Prince Harry promoting Meghan for voiceover work to Disney’s CEO at the Premiere of The Lion King. Their shame comes in spade-loads.

For Meghan, marrying into the Royal family appears to have been a launch pad, a tactical move in a far bigger game plan. And decent Brits have every right to feel used.

I could be noble. I could say that I wish her well with her new celebrity life of excess in North America. But I do not. I rue the day Prince Harry fell into her trap and flinch as I watch His Royal Redback get gobbled up alive.


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To: george76
I think that the Queen is consulting with her best trouble shooter.

41 posted on 03/29/2021 2:29:45 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: 9YearLurker

Baloney. She’s a hired hand for their recapture of the US!
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I’m sure that’s true. After all, America nowadays is such a fine catch!


42 posted on 03/29/2021 2:48:18 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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To: DCBryan1

Harry could have had a Rolls Royce, or a Ferrari, but instead chose a used up Buick.
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I figured the first time I heard he let her latch on to him that he had a screw loose. Oh well!


43 posted on 03/29/2021 2:50:45 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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To: ScottinVA

If Harry really cared about the image of his family and country, he’d have avoided marrying the leftist American bitch.
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Hey, you better be careful making a true statement like that! You might get accused of hate speech!


44 posted on 03/29/2021 2:54:38 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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To: real saxophonist

Well done! And a new word, too! Ah, what is a douchecanoe anyway?


45 posted on 03/29/2021 2:58:42 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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To: george76
Meghan Markle: A Disaster for the British Monarchy

Let's get real and realistic. WHO CARES?

46 posted on 03/29/2021 3:33:13 PM PDT by upchuck (Republicans better realize the 74 million Trump supporters are not 74 million GOP supporters.)
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To: nutmeg

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47 posted on 03/29/2021 3:34:20 PM PDT by nutmeg (God bless you and thank you, Rush)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Any truth to the rumor that playing the Rolling Stones song “Brown Sugar”

Playing the song "Some Girls" will get you a trip to Old Bailey.

48 posted on 03/29/2021 3:34:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: freedumb2003

Of course Marple did not take down the Monarchy. The only thing she has managed to take down are Harry’s pants.

Marple still represents the forces that would take away the divine connection of the Queen and its direct role in Government in the UK.


49 posted on 03/29/2021 7:00:19 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: george76
Meg's calling other folk racist?



50 posted on 03/29/2021 10:26:05 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: george76
In contrast, Prince Harry's grandmother and grandfather danced in 1961 with the black President and President's wife of Ghana. That too in the civil rights days.

The queen hasn't a racist bone in her body and Prince Philip may make gaffes, but his actions show him to be not racist either

And four years ago she appointed a Ghanaian born soldier Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah as her equerry - that is an officer of honour. Historically, it was a senior attendant with responsibilities for the horses of a person of rank. In contemporary use, it is a personal attendant, usually upon a sovereign, a member of a royal family, or a national representative.

Twumasi-Ankrah has worked all his life in the military. He was the first black African British Army officer to be commissioned directly into the Household Cavalry

51 posted on 03/29/2021 10:31:22 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: DCBryan1

Harry’s nickname is “Halfwit” - and that’s very apparent now


52 posted on 03/29/2021 10:32:51 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Candor7

Megs didn’t hate Trump. She only jumped on the anti-Trump bandwagon as it kept her in the spotlight. If wearing a MAGA hat would keep her in the spotlight, she’d do it. A woman with zero convictions and no allegiance except to herself and her aggrandizement

This is apparent in how she categorized herself as “Caucasian” right up until she was getting married to Harry. Then she suddenly discovered she had some black component.


53 posted on 03/29/2021 10:35:04 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: PrincessB
I agree - Halfwit is just as much at fault as MeGain.

He's been a wild prince and one with very little brain. Now he's 36, living off daddy, with no means to sustain his very expensive lifestyle and not willing to do any work.

Plus his lies - like "poor me never rode on a bicycle when I was a child. My dad never rode with me at the back in a child's bicycle seat. Woe is me"

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And then people show these popular pictures from the 80s


54 posted on 03/29/2021 10:40:17 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Candor7
When that is lost....then it truly would be silly even for the British.

The British public, even the ones favouring a republic, now despise MeGain and Half-wit

Why? Because the lies were so blatant, they wonder why Americans can't see them

  1. No Prince title for Archie? But none of the other GREAT-grandkids who aren't in the direct line of the throne get the title of Prince
  2. "We want Archie with the Prince Title" yet "being part of royalty is being trapped"
  3. We want more millions from the crown, but we don't want to work as working royals
  4. "my passport was confiscated" yet she travelled over a dozen times in that year on personal trips and many other trips
  5. "I was refused a pyschologist by HR" - err.. "HR" is for the employees not the employERs
  6. "Psychologist" - yet HArry promoted a psychologist helpline before he married - what happened to that?
  7. "Psychologist" - yet Harry has been to a psychologist, what happened?
  8. "Psychologist" - she had a phone, she had a gynaecologist - why not ask them or call?
  9. "they are racist as they wondered what color the child of a pale ginger and a tanned woman would be. That's racist...."

  10. Oh and the best - "I didn't know anything about the royal family" --

55 posted on 03/29/2021 10:50:43 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Candor7
We knew from the jump this broad loved the limelight and married the guy whose job was to be invisible. Her brother in law and his family would always be top dog, her husband could only take the throne if William’s entire family died tragically.

This drama was seen by Stevie Wonder.

56 posted on 03/29/2021 10:52:10 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Candor7
And here's the opinion polls from the UK after the Oprah "interview"

More people than not now have a negative view of Prince Harry, while public opinion of other senior royals largely remains unchanged

from March 12 - the latest YouGov data shows it has not done the couple any favours with the public. While their popularity ratings saw a small uplift ahead of the interview, they have since declined again and are now at their lowest ever level.

The latest YouGov data shows that 45% of Britons have a positive opinion of Prince Harry, while 48% regard him negatively, giving a net score of -3. This is a drop of 15 points from 2 March, and marks the first time attitudes have been negative rather than positive towards the prince.

Meghan’s scores have also fallen considerably. Only three in ten people (31%) have a positive opinion of her, while a majority of 58% view her negatively. This means she has a net rating of -27, down from -14 just over a week ago

...The other royals’ popularity remains unchanged. Britons continue to be most fond of the Queen, with four in five people (80%) liking her, and only 14% having a negative opinion of her.

Prince William and his wife Kate are also very popular, with about three quarters of Britons giving them favourable reviews.
Over three in five people (63%) say Britain should continue to have a monarchy, compared with 67% in October last year.
57 posted on 03/29/2021 10:57:20 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Candor7
Katie certainly stated the obvious. Markle’s been play acting whatever she needed to be as she sought stardom but never quite got there.....at her age she had to up her game...and did.

But I have to say her acting in the Oprah interview was truly shoddy and unbelievable.....which evidences why she never made it to stardom. Frankly Harry and Marple are well suited....a Couple of ungrateful and emotionally handicapped individuals who can't live without the spotlight they both claim they hate...when all their actions prove otherwise.

58 posted on 03/29/2021 11:08:08 PM PDT by caww
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To: redgolum
Well they're next step to sustain the media attention they covet is a movie

of their departure from the Royal Family....but they "just want to be left alone"....

They know how to 'prostitute" themselves to the public


59 posted on 03/29/2021 11:13:17 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

oops.their.


60 posted on 03/29/2021 11:14:30 PM PDT by caww
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