So I finally got the chance to read the full Tatler story – “One Year of Meghanomania” – and it was just as stupid and nasty as everyone said. The actual “news” within the piece was already covered here and here – Kensington Palace courtiers call Meghan “Me-Gain” and Meghan is blamed for “banishing” Harry’s closest friends. What other news is there? The royal courtiers feel Meghan is “getting bad advice,” but not from them, from her own outside friends and connections. Of course the courtiers would feel that way – they want to be the only ones in her ear. That’s what I keep thinking throughout all of these Meghan smears – the courtiers and the royal reporters cannot bloody stand it that Meghan isn’t content to do as they say and be insulted relentlessly. They are so freaked out that people like Beyonce, Serena Williams, Amal Clooney and Oprah have Meghan’s back. The courtiers and reporters look provincial and small. That’s the heart of it.

The only thing that I found telling in the Tatler piece was the suggestion – supposedly circulated among the aristo set last year – that Meghan would only last for five years before she got bored with the royal lifestyle and Harry. That theory popped in our comment section a lot last year, that there was already a ticking clock on Meghan’s duchesshood and that she would only want to keep up the facade for five years and two kids max. I don’t have any predictions here, I just think it’s interesting that the supposed aristo/courtier set was saying the same things as many commenters on this blog. Also: Tatler throws in one piece of gossip not about Meghan: Amal and George Clooney were apparently bickering at Meg & Harry’s wedding. But yes, this Tatler piece was just… unpleasant. I don’t think it was done entirely on Kensington Palace’s say-so, but clearly, the Cambridges’ communications office had no problem with it.

Hello Magazine also has a primer on what happens when Meghan gives birth to Polo Baby. Most of these little facts are just based on Duchess Kate’s various births – like, the Queen is told first when the baby is born. Polo Baby won’t get an official name until several days after he or she is born. Hello also reminded me that we still don’t know if Polo Baby will get a title, if the Queen will offer the Sussexes a title for Polo Baby or if the Sussexes will decline royal titles for their children. Keep your eye on this part of it, because it will be important in the years to come as to how the media treats the Sussexes’ children versus how the Cambridge kids are treated. I think Harry will be pro-title. I don’t know how Meghan will feel.

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