For some reason this week, media outlets have been obsessing over Meghan Markle’s style choices. Personally, I don’t think we have enough fashion photos of her in a variety of situations to really make any hard-and-fast decisions on her style. Plus, Meghan has been dressing like an “actress” for years, as opposed to dressing like a “future princess.” Future princesses have to wear British designers. Actresses have to wear sexy stuff. Future princesses should – ideally – look occasion-appropriate and modest. Actresses dress to steal the show, with the more exposed skin, the better. Anyway, Meghan has apparently added several British labels to her wardrobe and now people are trying to read the sartorial tea-leaves to figure out if Meghan is prepping a royal engagement. Who knows?
Meanwhile, People Magazine is hoping that you’ll love every lukewarm morsel of their relationship.
Prince Harry and Suits star Meghan Markle have only been together since last summer, but the couple are already settled into a rhythm together. PEOPLE confirmed in October that Harry and Markle had been seeing each other for three months and since the start of the new year the pair have been, according to an insider, “inseparable” while using Harry’s cozy two-bedroom Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace as a home base.
“They are really just enjoying spending time together,” a second source tells PEOPLE of the couple, who vacationed in Norway together in early January and were last photographed hand-in-hand in London on Feb. 1.
Markle’s humanitarian work took her to India for a week in January. But with the actress not expected back on the Suits set until April, palace insiders predict Harry, 32, and his new love, 35, will soon jet off on a ski trip together.
“It just feels very natural for them both,” the source says of the relationship. “It feels easy — like they’ve known each other for a long time.”
Oh, so they’re going on vacation together again? I wonder when this ski holiday will be? The date is probably TBD, they’re just waiting to see when Emperor Baby Fists schedules his trip to England and then suddenly Harry will be “on vacation” during those exact dates. As I’ve said before, that’s not the worst strategy. I hope all of the royals are “on vacation” when Trump visits. As for Harry and Meghan feeling like they’ve known each other a long time… those are the best kinds of relationships and friendships. When there’s an immediate “click” and you “get” each other so quickly. Sigh…
Photos courtesy of WENN, PCN.
Trust me the early days of a new romance is great as in the couple want to spend all their time together, they feel like they really click and get each other. That was the way it was with my husband. But the real test comes after a few years, once your relationship is challenged with real adversity and the day to day schedule of living with someone- if you can still laugh with that person then, still want to spend time together and really get each other then….NOW that’s beautiful and worth it.
I wonder too if Meaghan is swept off her feet because she’s dating a real life prince and gets to go on these expensive vacations making the relationship exciting! Granted she isn’t poor or middle class herself but she also wouldn’t have access to the kind of luxury vacations that A-listers would have.
I agree!
I think it’s a bit of a trap when you think you’ve clicked like that because you’re lulled into a false sense of security. You really haven’t known each other than long, but you think you’re so invincible.
Exactly. In the first 4-6 months of their relationship, they saw each other once a month for a few days each time. No real exposure to a person’s icky habits, just the fluffy, fun stuff. Aw, I remember it well. And now since Christmas, they have been spending all their time together. So that is about six weeks maybe? I wish them both the best but I am wondering if people can really know each other well under those circumstances where both seem to be on vacation, no work commitments, no money issues, no my-family-doesn’t-like-your-family issues. Markle seems like a nice person but does she really want to marry into the Royal Family who are basically crazy? Does she really want Kate Middleton’s life?
We must remember they do have their grandma’s successful, long term relationship to model themselves on, should they choose to follow her example. And Kate’s mom and dad have been together for awhile. I don’t know about ms. markle’s family, but at least they know what healthy loving relationships look like. There’s hope
You know Prince Philip has been cheating on the queen since like forever, right? That when her sister died she was mourning alone while he was pictured quad biking with a blonde? The only reason why these stories are not front cover is out of respect for the queen. I believe once she passes away it will be a different story.
You know what? Yes. I believe Philip has cheated on the Queen. Repeatedly. It will all come out when both of them are dead. But you know what else? I believe that they have come to an arrangement that has worked for them both, and when the Queen said that he has been her strength and stay, that she truly meant it. It takes a lot to carry on affectionately for decades when you met and fell in love as teenagers. None of us commenting here have any idea what it must have taken to sustain their marriage.
As someone married 30 years, I concur. The beginning is wonderful – the first 6 months to a year!! Even dating is great. The first year of marriage was a challenge, and we didn’t have paparazzi following us around, mocking me, talking about his other girlfriends. You can settle in, but there are times that I have really not liked my husband and wanted a divorce because things happen. People change, bad things occur and blame can be assigned. But if you believe in “until death do us part,” you soldier on. Being too poor to really divorce helps keep us together, too. So does the fact that I really do love him.
I think celebrities and royalty have other issues that we will never have to deal with. As I said, photographers chasing them around, mocking her (as they did to Fergie,) the opportunities the rich and famous have with other people that many of us don’t really have. The ability to walk away and still be rich. Add in Harry’s family, who certainly seem to be difficult, to say the least. Also add in her mixed race (which the media will beat her to death over,) her racy career, her family who seem normal, which is to say they have some quirky people, and that Meghan’s eyes may be filled with royal dust right now – and I think they should be smart and slow this WAAAYYYYY down. Be smart. Don’t jump. Marriage is tough, if you have kids it makes it tougher, and Harry’s life is nothing like a middle class American girl grows up with.
@ Sarah : “Being too poor to really divorce helps keep us together, too. So does the fact that I really do love him”.
Thank you for your candour and honesty. This should be something that every young person hears.
I can already see the divorce drama if they marry lol
I see divorce drama too.
Read that PH was dating English model Sarah Macklin, June and July ( PH allegedly bombarded Sarah Macklin with texts just like he did with Ms. Markle) this while he was reportedly dating Ms. Markle.
Reading something A. doesn’t make it true and B. Even if true one doesn’t start a relationship pledging exclusivity. That comes once you’ve both had time to make the initial assessment about continuing and how.
I do love all this faux concern for Meghan’s state of mind. To date Meghan hasn’t done relationship drama. She dated and divorced a man and did it quietly after 11 years together (pls don’t start the tumbrl lies about her cheating) and asked for NOTHING. she also split with a man who was cheating on her sans drama so I hardly think you have a basis for expecting her to behave differently with Harry…SHOULD they split.
Can’t recall: Reading something doesn’t allegedly make it true or untrue, until proven.
Patterns of behavior sometimes predict future behavior (referring to the BRF).
Drama arises, not from the facts, but from the tabloids exploiting the circumstance(s) and dramatizing it. This has been true all along with the BRF.
No expectations, except from the media to exploit this, either way 🙂
Sauter aux conclusions sans vraiment comprendre le point de vue d’autrui est imprudent.
Merci d’avoir mal compris mon message et de le tordre dans quelque chose qui n’est pas prévu.
I am bilingual and was taught by my francophone mother to use the language that everyone in the room understands otherwise you are just being ignorant.
So I will translate your rude little message for everyone :
“Jumping to conclusions without understanding the other’s point of view is not prudent.
Thank you for having misunderstood my message and turning it into something into which I didn’t anticipate. ”
Next time be sarcastic and bitchy in English.
Meghan split from her husband because SHE cheated on him with a hockey player. She dumped chef Cory after she cheated on him.
Can’tRecall must be Meghan’s PR team to spew lies to make her look like a saint. Not gonna work.
The BRF learned their lessons with Diana and Fergie. They also know how to handle scandals quietly, ie. Mark Phillips was shipped off to the next-door estate and Anne’s affair with her current husband turned into marriage. From now on, the BRF will be in control of any divorces.
If W&K divorce, the BRF would go full-on behind the scenes with everything they have on the Middletons. The Midds would ultimately end up going quietly.
I love that dark lipstick! (second photo)
Me, too – and I’d add that she looks just stunning in that shade of red (top/dress/jacket/?)- match-matchy really works in this case.
Thank you Nic.
I was responding “politely” to someone who misunderstood a comment and turning my point of view into something unintended 🙂
One has the right to clarify when being misunderstood?
I define that as misinterpreting one’s comment and intent.
I Apologize to you for calling me “ignorant”. I am American and understand enough French and Spanish to try to diffuse the response to me by defending myself, in what came across as a misunderstanding by one poster and you respond by calling me ignorant.
Thank you for understanding, so well 🙂
Thank you . Merci. Gracias 🙂
That photo slideshow in the Vanity Fair link does a good job of showing how much prettier Meghan is than Kate.
I think Meghan is quite unattractive. JMO
I think she’s average-pretty. She reminds me of so many other women.
@Trixie:
“She reminds me of so many other women.” – True, it’s the same with Kate.
Oh gee, I wonder why you think that. No I don’t since I already know the answer.
@Merritt:
Oh and what is the answer, dear Merritt?
I think Meghan is seriously stunning…. I’m very surprised to hear anyone say otherwise, even though I know beauty is subjective. Kate, imho, is rather plain. And I’m saying this as a person who has been compared to Kate before (that wounded my vanity).
She reminds me of Soleil Moon Frye! It finally hit me!
The difference between the two is that there’s a sexiness to Meghan…even when she’s natural. Kate is pretty, but she doesn’t have that Wow factor.
I think Meghan is gorgeous. There is just something about her. Personally, I find Meghan to be far more beautiful and have far more of that “it” factor than Kate. I might have a slight bias because I find it really irritating that Kate doesn’t seem want to use her spotlight to help people and she’s never seemed interested in doing any work ever.
I think she’s pretty a bit ‘hotter’ and softer than Kate though they look alike. But she’s not a stunning beauty like Halle Berry,Lisa Bonet, Kerry Washington etc.
Both Kate and Meghan are very good looking women. But I think Meghan has these eyes that sparkles, she’s just has more charisma or bubbliness about her. In interviews she’s seems like a good hang, not edgy or extraordinary but obviously well spoken and interested in different things. I just think it’s the whole personality that separates her from the Middleton sisters. I don’t actually get when people say Kate looks bad she’s very good looking imo but her personality is quite dull. But that’s a bit like Harry and wills so I guess it’s fitting if Harry ends up with the girl with more personality.
I think she is by far the most beautiful of all Harry’s girls.
I think i she’s pretty but looks old for her age. I also feel like her skin looks sun damaged.
@Indira Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I guess Meghan is lucky that Harry seems to find her attractive enough. I’m sure
I think they are both beautiful, but not as beautiful as Keanu Reeves.
The man is working his ass off promoting John Wick: Chapter 2 and not 1 post on this beautiful man. What’s going on Celebitchy???
There were two posts about my fantasy bf last week, but yeah, not nearly enough about the truly lovely Keanu.
Good news is he has signed on to a new romantic thriller, Siberia. Won’t be out until late 2018 earliest though.
@nota. And is wanted for new version of Pippi Longstockings. Plus has To the Bone and Bad Batch to be released.
Let’s compare women’s looks because reasons.
For Kate to be so bland and boring people sure love to bring her up negatively any chance they get huh?
I think Kate is lazy and I’m not a fan, but god, the hypocrisy is always real on these threads.
This. I just can’t see the value in trashing a woman’s looks, even if she is lazy and entitled. It’s so medievil.
I agree, it’s mean to pit women against each other. The problem with Kate is she puts lots of effort in her looks for public events, but very little preparation for the actual cause. It comes across as if her appearance is the only aspect of her activities she wants to highlight. It’s no wonder that shallowness irritates people. For what it’s worth, I think Kate has pretty features but seems very uncomfortable in her own body, unlike Meghan. And being more engaged and prepared for her events would definitely help her confidence, including her posture and body language, except at this point I don’t really think she has the capacity for it.
I think Meghan is lovely. I also think Lazy Kate is very, very pretty. I think Meghan is much sexier than Kate, and you would look at her before you look at Kate, who is like weak tea. But she is pretty. Why beat up one to put another one on a pedestal?
“When there’s an immediate “click” and you “get” each other so quickly. Sigh…”
As there was with Rania and Abdullah II, Letizia and Felipe, where both couples married within a year of meeting. 23 and 12 years later, both of those other royal marriages appear to be fine. If it is the right person, it can move quickly.
BREAKS THE GD HORN TO HONK FOR RANIA COVERAGE!!!
But yeah I’m delighting in this Harry has a Gf and she is Grown and has a Job thing
Fuck yeah! I love Rania.
I also love Meghan with Harry.
Well said, nota! I love hater-proof comments.
I think sometimes, especially after a certain age, you just know what you’re looking for and don’t waste time questioning it when you find it.
I totally agree with this. It’s important not to rush into marriage when you’re young and don’t know yourself, although some young people do! My parents got married at 21 and 22, and they’re still together 39 years later. Most people though, by the time they hit 35, kinda know what they want and it makes it easier to make a commitment.
Thank you for bringing up Letizia and Felipe! I was surprised when I found out that they got married so quickly. And agreed, sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. I hope for Harry & Megan’s sake, since they seem to like each other a lot, that it works out.
Would she actually be a Princess or Duchess. She is cute but does remind me of someone else not sure who though. I had to stop with Suits loved it at first but all of them started to grate on my nerves especially the very loud Harvey.
Harry’s wife is automatically Princess Henry of Wales just like kate is Princess William of Wales and not princess Kate.
The Queen would grant Harry a ducal title upon marriage.
But I wonder what official princess attire would be? Spray on jeggings? Poorly tailored dresses ? Wedges? So much to choose from.
Thanks I live here but don’t keep up with any of that Royal stuff nor does my British husband too complicated for me.
Def. wedges, she has the hair now so that’s ok, umm maybe Boden 🙂 for fun day wear and Jenny Packman??
The Barbour coat and wellies mean nothing…go to any Whole Foods in America and plenty of women are dressed that way. The british press is just over-picking everything.
So many new usernames all posting within minutes of each other…
I wonder why our old friend “Amy” isn’t posting yet…
She’ll be along shortly to say they’ve broken up.
Lol 🙂
I think the “…like they’ve known each other a long time.” is in response to some freaking out at DM saying ‘this is moving too quickly, they don’t know each other!’ I get that phrase, there are people, friends even, where you click right away.
Don’t mean to sound snarky, but the first juicy leading lady role in a movie or tv show comes along ,she is out of there. It will be hard to turn down something she has probably wanted for many years to become part of the cog on a wheel royal. As for her dress she looks pretty normal, like she shops at Bloomingdales. As for feeling like your relationship feels like an old soft shoe, that might be good or bad.
I doubt that, no reason she can’t continue to date him and carry on her career. Maybe marriage would change things (maybe), but Harry is only fifth in line right now. The spouses of the Queen’s younger children seem to be able to live pretty normal lives when they want to.
Meghan is in her mid thirties. She works in an industry notorious for age discrimination when it comes to women. And it is even worse for WOC. I kind of doubt many juicy roles are going to be offered.
@Who Says Maybe not. IIRC she double majored in theatre and international relations. Certainly she can shift her focus to the various arts programs in the UK, like Grace Kelly did when she became Princess Grace.
Feeling like they’ve known each other a long time and things are natural and easy between them? Not the same thing as thinking the other is “an old soft shoe”, but whatever helps you sleep at night.
Letizia was voted the top newscaster under 30 in Spain and she left it all behind to marry Felipe. Careers change, lives change. Maxima, Mathilde, Daniel, Letizia, etc. The others left behind their careers when they married their royal matches. No reason to think Meghan couldn’t successfully do the same if they decided to marry.
She’s not Meryl Streep. I think-as Boxy Lady says-she co majored in international relations and even worked at the embassy in Buenos Aires. Combined with her interest in “doing good” and I think she’d easily give up one career to focus on the other. Look at everything Maxima and CPM do in their respective countries. There’s no reason why Meghan can’t do that too.
Yeah if you’re looking at this cynically she’s got the ability to be much bigger as Princess/Duchess Meghan than she’d ever be on her own. I’m not saying that necessarily her motive but I highly doubt she’d be crying over leaving behind acting if it is. She’s got nowhere near the notoriety that Grace Kelly did when she married into royalty.
Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of actors become actors because they genuinely love acting, not because they want to be famous. Nothing in Meghan’s history or current behaviour indicates someone motivated by the desire for celebrity.
@Fluff-where do I say she’s motivated by celebrity? I don’t say that at all.
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I think they should just hurry the heck up with my St Martin-in-the-Field and my Flying Elvi. SOMETHING has to cheer up 2017.
+ Swans in the fountain, glass coach, and Teck Crescent tiara. I’m with you Sixer. 2017 is already looking worse than 2016.
We need this wedding.
Re: Tiara’s. Am quite taken with the Brazilian Aquamarine Parure – great piece of bling for any occasion.
We should have build a bear parade where children i.e. us here at CB, create wedding themed bears.
For music – it has to be Beyonce performing in the church. I loved the recent Swedish wedding – was glued to it all day.
Please Sixer, don’t rush them. A bride with a sprained ankle won’t compliment the flying elvi well!
And a ceremonial burning at the stake of Twitler!
Guy and Bogart as ring bearers ?
Have they ever been photographed together because I have NEVER seen one. I’m starting to feel as if this relationship is entirely made up because I see story after story about them and never a single shot of them together. Please somebody correct me if I am wrong.
Google is your friend, my little sea lion.
WTF is sealioning? I have just never noticed a photo of them together. My comment about thinking it’s made up was in jest. Calm down.
Sealioning is when a commenter asks a seemingly innocuous question asking for evidence to prove something that they already know is true. It is a common tactic to make others waste their time by proving it. It’s a bad faith way of demonising something you don’t like. And a common trolling tactic.
Apologies if this was not your intent, L84Tea, but we have a flood of new commenters on Markle/Harry threads hereabouts – none of them ever in favour of the relationship. Hence my assumption.
(And if you are sealioning after all: congrats on getting me to type a couple of paragraphs!)
Nope, wasn’t my intention at all. I comment on this site all the time. And as far as Harry and Meghan, I’m truly not invested in them (hence why I’ve never bothered googling them). Mine was merely an observation that I never see pictures of them together on this site, and my comment was just me being sarcastic while drinking my coffee and avoiding work, but I guess it didn’t translate well. I’ll make a mental note of that next time to avoid being pounced on.
They were papped attending a West End play last year (which, just to name drop, and old friend of mine happened to have written – he tweeted about it quite amusingly). Then they were papped together in London very recently.
Cool, thanks.
They were snapped together on the way to the theater in London a few weeks ago by a guy on a bus with a phone. A few days ago they were papped entering Soho house. I liked her boots and bag on that one.
Gotcha, thanks. I just hadn’t bothered googling because I guess when I’m not here I’m not going out of my way to look them up.
Don’t respond with actual answers, chaps. L84Tea is just sealioning us. She knows perfectly well there are pictures.
I had to google the term “sealioning”. Sigh, it’s official: I have crossed the line into old fart. I am woefully non-au courant in web-speak anymore 😪
@Imqrious2, I’ve never heard it either. And I don’t even plan to google the term as I know it doesn’t apply to me.
Two pictures of them and a ton of herself and dogs, inside her home, family….on and on. If she were anyone else she would be called out as a famewhore on celebitchy.
Joannie, that right there kind of reiterates what I was commenting about in the first place. I don’t for a second believe they are not together (Okay Sixer??). I’m sure they’re reaklly dating and wildly in love and blah blah blah, but the photos of them together are next to non-existent to the point that it strikes me as sort of comical. Almost as if the press could say Prince Harry is seriously involved with Lady Matilda Frankenstein Hot Dog Bun of The Netherlands and if they say it enough it could be true. It’s just funny to me!
Yes, posting pics of your dogs on Insta while quietly doing your job and not ever talking about your relationship is the very definition of famewhoring.
Quietly doing her job? Please no one even knew she existed before her posting the bananas and her bracelet. And everything else about her life including the inside of her home and her trashy family. We dont even know if this relationship is serious. It’s media hype and click bait. People wanting them to get married because she’s mixed race?? WTH
Harry publicly acknowledged a girlfriend. He had the Palace issue a statement defending her and criticizing the rampant racist trolls online. Both of those things are unprecedented. No matter how much you try to pretend otherwise, this relationship is the most serious one he has had.
Go read up on Uncle Gary, Maison de Bang Bang, the drugs and sex sting, and the Middleton stripper cousin who strips wearing a crown. Members of the family, especially Uncle Gary, who are close to W&K (they vacationed repeatedly at his vacation house, you know the one used in the p o r n film)? And Pippa little Paris gun escapade, hushed up by the Palace. And the time she used taxpayer-funded RPOs for her book tour.
Meghan Markle is a successful television actress, 6 seasons in, and has done charity work with World Vision for a couple of years. Many other actresses would give their eye teeth to have her career. She also has a lifestyle blog that must give her satisfaction and earn her some money, or she wouldn’t keep doing it.
She participated in interviews, participated in social media because that is part of her job as an actress and life-style blogger. She has a line of affordable clothing at Reitmans, so they must think she had something to offer when they signed her to that before she met Harry.
Just because some people don’t like her, doesn’t mean she’s a nobody. She’s been doing her job for years, and blogging and participating in interviews showing her home was part of that job.
Joannie,
No one’s pretending that MM is anything close to an A lister. She has had a pretty solid career, though, and the lifestyle blog (the source of all those dog/home/fashion/banana photos) seems to be an extension of that. I find the blog to be shallow and dull, but perfectly adequate for the genre. The charity work could be seen as a way to extend her brand — as Beckham used it — but given her mother’s influence (a social worker) and her Catholic school background, I suspect that her charitable impulses are at least half heartfelt. Even veiwing her cynically, she has the education and work experience to partner Harry sucessfully. Her half-siblings are problematic, to say the least, but are unlikely to cause any real problems. So I want to see more gossip-worthy photos. And I want her to stop wearing jeans with holes in them. Or slouchy hats. She can do so much better.
Um, the entire reason the relationship became so public is because HARRY wrote a letter to the press defending his girlfriend. He’s the one who has spoken out, on the most wide and public platform there is, about the relationship. She has never spoken about the relationship and has gone out of her way not to be papped or seen with him.
As for “no one had ever heard of her” — who the hell cares? Whenever people use “they’re not famous” as a diss, I think they themselves must be utterly obsessed with fame and resentful of not having it. Such an odd thing to use an an insult or criticism. I am slightly in the public eye and if there was any way to do my job without it (and having to deal with the hassles of fans and the media), I would do it in a heartbeat.
Meghan is a successful working actress so obviously some people have heard of her. There is no indication she is desperate to be a celebrity or that she is doing anything other than living her life and working her job.
OK it’s late and I’m just coming home but this is insane! It’s like Trump levels of gas lighting. Do you think that Putin’s trolls want Harry & Meghan not to get married? I can’t really think why.
Sixer you’ve been proven right
Yeees, Meghan, you go girl! Sooo MUCH love for her and all of my girls this month and forever. #BLACKGIRLMAGIC #BHM
I think she’s gorgeous, has great style and will be an amazing royal Duchess. We need this, Harry!
Meh. She’s very prettty like so many Hollywood actresses (who have had work done) with the perfect little nose (no bridge),pouty lips, and long glossy straight hair. Bores me to tears. What many people call “big noses” are just real noses that haven’t been surgically streamlined . Diana had a “big” nose- it was part of what made her unique.
Oh FFFS….prove she’s had a nose job. Prove it with pictures. She’s biracial, of COURSE she has naturally pouty lips, look at photos of her mother. That’s a mean and utterly silly comment. Oh, and for your information, Diana had her nose “adjusted”.
No- I don’t think Diana had a nose job. It looked the same from many photos online. In fact it looked a bit larger during her last year. Noses and ears grow with age. Feet change too.
I believe Kate has also had a nose job.
I think Meghan is absolutely beautiful. Always thought so since I started watching suits.
Re: the comment about being on vacation if/when Trump goes there. I hope the British government, as a present for the Queen’s Sapphire Jubilee this year, at least does her the favor of scheduling the potential visit during her sojourns in Sandringham or, preferably, Balmoral. Then just let the Queen stay there under the pretext that she’s 91 (as of April) and can’t be running all over the place at the government’s whim or something. Maybe, for diplomacy’s sake, throw in a ‘chest cold’ since there’s precedence for that being one of the few things that derails her. If the meeting has to happen, let one of the junior royals have to take one for the team. Luckily for Meghan, if an engagement comes down the pike, it takes a long enough time for the machinery to start grinding that she (and her privates) would be spared any interaction with Trump.
She’s so gorgeous
Best of luck to the both of them. If you find someone who wants to take this journey with you, hold on. Haters going to hate, so enjoy!
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