From all indications, the second Meghan Markle gracefully walked into British society on Prince Harry’s arm, the knives were out for her. The Windsors and their courtiers were absolutely planning their attacks, but don’t forget about the British aristocracy. Remember that story about Sabine Getty and Lady Alice Manners? I feel like that’s what it was like whenever Harry and Meghan tried to socialize. Meghan was met with hostility constantly from people who – in so many words – thought that she “didn’t know her place.” Speaking of…
A Woman Of Substance author Barbara Taylor Bradford, who was handed an OBE by the Queen, claims the Duchess of Sussex tried — and failed — to outshine Her Majesty.
‘Meghan came to the UK imagining she’d be the star of the red carpet, even though she wasn’t much more than a starlet in America,’ she says of the U.S. former actress.
‘What she didn’t realise is that we already have a shining star on the red carpet, someone who’s been there for 70 years. She’s called the Queen.’
Leeds-born Taylor Bradford, who has lived in New York for decades, adds: ‘The Queen is magnificent, and William and Kate grow in stature day by day. She’s divine — and how does she stay so slim?’
I mean… that’s exactly what it is, that Meghan “didn’t know her place.” That’s what so many of these comments boil down to: racism, classism, anti-Americanism, a knee-jerk feeling of “why is she good at this, why doesn’t she hate the attention, why is she so glamorous, that makes the rest of us look bad!” Part of it was Meghan being American, part of it was Meghan-as-an-actress and part of it was the immediate fear of Meghan’s beauty, charisma and star power. These fussy hags never gave her a chance.
For what it’s worth, Meghan clearly did try to dull her sparkle for these crones. She was deliberately taking it down several notches in the hope of “fitting in” and not stealing anyone’s thunder. And then at some point she was like “f–k this.”
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“How does she stay so slim?”
Sit down, Barbara.
Right?!🤣
Is that the only thing they can complement on Duchess Mcbutton…her staying so thin?!😬
As far as Meghan not knowing her place, she did and acted accordingly. It’s not her fault that just her breathing or smiling completely outshines and eclipse every other royal, including the queen. Meghan did one engagement with the queen, and fans were handing the queen bouquet of flowers to give to Meghan. Some ppl have that spark (Meghan, Diana, Harry) and the rest of the royals don’t!!🤷🏾♀️
That’s the thing. Meghan didn’t do anything except be herself. She didn’t do or say anything to get attention. Her background gave her extra attention but Meghan didn’t do anything different from the rest of the Royal family which ticked them and the RR off.
That time they attacked Meghan for being too beautiful at Remembrance Day, unlike their girl Kate, who was appropriately dour looking.😂😂 It was the low-key dragging of Kate that was hilarious. She stays catching strays every time they come for Meghan’s beauty.
@ truthSF, that’s it!! Meghan and Harry are naturally drawing people in due to who they are. Just because Meghan out performed the rest of the RF isn’t her fault.
FFS, just get over yourself Ms. Taylor Bradford!! We all know the RF are just a bunch of lazy, racist, pathetic and jealous family with NO redeeming qualities!! It’s not our fault you have to fake it with Mumbles McMutton and the Other Brother.
Live with it!!
Meghan can’t help but outshine everyone else in that miserable family. She’s smarter, better educated, more empathetic, more proactive, has people skills, and the “it” factor that they lack. That these royal sycophants need to constantly try to tear her down in order to show loyalty to the royal family, means the royals must be insanely jealous of Meghan. And they always will be.
Duchess Mcbutton….lol
That is such a great nickname for that woman. I haven’t liked Kate (racist) from the start. She constantly cosplays Princess Diana and other women she aspires to be, whom she never, ever will be. I honestly can not understand how (racist) William is not ashamed of how she dresses when they are out in public. And my opinion for that old hag of a romance writer, she is living that fantasy in her head. Barbara is an old senile lady and should keep her racist opinions to herself. No one wants to know what the old racist bat thinks.
Meghan had great PR skills from her time as an actress and influencer. She was masterful in how she built her public image – you could follow her steps like it was a case study on how to progressively built a successful brand that was on point with her own personal style. Sadly nothing could prepare her or anyone for the hidden rules and undercurrents of being a “successful” British Royal. Kate’s role is to be conservative and never outshine her husband. Seriously that’s her job. H&M’s “role” was to be conservative, predictable and never outshine W&K. Fair? No but there it is.
How does she stay so slim? Umm, by deliberately eating very very little. Duh, Barbara.
And perhaps she is too thin, and has stress related issues.
Barbara is from the “never too rich or too thin” generation. Asking how someone stays so slim is a compliment in her world.
How does she do it? not eating enough, stress and anxiety of having to do stuff when you dont want to, being unhappy with a husband rosebushing at least 3 times a week leaving with the helicopter, having to stay away from her family, depressed, eating disorder, gym gym gym to keep up with the public image of being always thin, having to competition with meghan, being called a racist… tons of reasons.
These are the kinds of people who support Kate as the perfect woman — because Kate is thin, white, and rich. That’s what makes Kate “classy”; that’s what makes Kate a good “future queen”; that’s why they admire her. It’s pathetic.
@Mrs.Krabapple – same thought process applied to Melania Trump being classy. Totally ignores the nude photoshoots…
That comment is so gross. You friggin’ know how. If you can’t say anything substantive about her, compliment her hair.
Such a vapid shallow comment. Obviously Barbara is no woman of substance.
You wish you knew, Barbara, huh? (after googling her) *rollseyes*
Ugh… the “slim”-comment is so gross, so backward. That woman is indeed from another generation.
Right ??? Insane that she said this!!! I mean as if being slim was an accomplishment of some sort??? In which world does this woman live?!
This is just shocking and speaks poorly of her overall intelligence. Pathetic woman, really.
Kate may be slim (which is NOT an accomplishment!!!) but she is also incredibly bland with zero personality or desire to have one. She is literally designed to fit in the background and be invisible, no experience of life, nothing to bring to the table intellectually speaking. But yes, she is slim. Ok. So are million of women on this planet, yet that has nothing to do with their soul or their intelligence. It is so sad to hear a woman value appearance over substance and do is proudly and openly. She is so clueless. This is really,really sad. I literally jumped of my chair when I read the slim comment.
Must be that ‘Dukan Diet’ her Ma plugs. *snark*
I honestly think she is trying to fat shame Meghan with this comment, which is both inaccurate and so, so sick.
@Embee –
Agreed. It was also a backhand at Meghan.😠
Bradford is very much from the world of one can never be ‘too rich or too thin’.
I legit thought it was a joke to put that at the end. It was a lazy line in an SNL skit about Meghan v. Kate.
There are four ways that I know of. One, anorexia/starvation. Two, bulimia. Three, cocaine. Four, natural metabolism.
She didn’t. That was Waity’s dream. And when everyone ignored her and loved Meghan, she decided to mimick her husband and act like an abusive bully.
Nah, KKKeen has always been an abusive bully and mean girl. She and The Other Brother are two peas in a mean, lazy, bullying, shallow, vindictive, racist pod.
“KKKeen” you are AMAZING @royalwatcher!!! I am never using another name for her 😂😂😂
Kate first attracted William’s attention when she was playing mean girl gatekeeper and getting rid of the women she thought might be too interested in him. This is who she has been since day one. She and Carole are very alike in that way.
Um, she WAS the star of the “red carpet” (i.e. the royal family.) that was the whole problem. The Fiji balcony moment was the problem.
(now I don’t think that was Meghan’s intention or goal, its not her fault she was popular on a global scale, but it still happened.)
and its very telling how she mentions that W&K are divine followed up with “how does she stay so slim?” That’s Kate’s one contribution, her one positive quality, her one asset, in the eyes of royal followers – how thin she is.
So true! Meghan naturally outshone them all, and they couldn’t stand it! It pisses me off that these old farts think they know what Meghan thinks/thought. She made it clear she wanted to do good. She wanted to use the platform of the RF to help people, and she did it brilliantly!
It’s so sad and sickening that the only thing Keen’s praised for is how thin she is. Way to be a role model for the children she’s soooo conserned about! Teaching them that looking anorectic and being a stepford wife is the only way to get praise.
@Becks and @ Couch Potato Agree with you both. Meghan was the star. I am completely tired of all these morons acting as if they know what she thinks and how she feels.
Exactly. The arrogance to presume to speak for someone you do not know and have never met.
Seriously, if Kate wasn’t as tall and thin as she is, the only thing she’d have over Meghan (in the eyes of the British media; this is not my opinion!!) is her whiteness. Her stature helps them to push the “regal” narrative, and makes it easier to pretend like she’s some sort of fashionista.
Lorelei i hope neither Meghan or any woman aspires to me that thin.
Exactly @Becks1. Meghan didn’t “imagine” it. It was undeniable!!
As for what Meghan wanted to do, as a royal, what she hoped to achieve? It was all about service. So obvious to anyone with eyes to see.
@TeamMeg: best of luck to poor Charlotte growing up in that environment (said with total sincerity!).
Meghan didn’t have to try to get the media attention, she simply did. She didn’t need to wear a sparkly dress from the set of Dynasty and have the establishment bleat on about how much of a star she was because with Meghan the charisma and star quality is not forced. It just is and that’s what kills these racist old crones.
And praising someone with an obvious issue is just sick. Kate needs help and praising her slimness is part of this problem.
@Becks, I realize this isn’t exactly Bradford’s point here (although ITA w/everything you said), but for Meghan’s many other critics who do try to tear down her acting career, it’s worth noting that she *was* a “red carpet star” before she ever even met Harry.
Sure, she wasn’t an A-list, household name like Julia Roberts, but barely ANYONE is anymore. Meghan was frequently photographed at premieres and fashion shows and even once at an event with Barack Obama…I’m not saying she expected special treatment in the BRF because of this, and she certainly never acted that way, but it’s so obnoxious when people brush aside her acting career like it was nothing (or trashy “just a suitcase girl!” 🙄). It drives me insane because it’s objectively wrong to claim that she was a “nobody” before dating Harry, because it’s just not true.
Only 2% (!!) of registered SAG actors make a living by acting alone, not needing any other sort of side hustle to pay the bills, so Meghan was already extremely successful by many measures way back when Suits was beginning to gain a following.
Every time these people try to insult Meghan, they get an enormous backlash, but they still keep trying 🙄
Those “suitcase” girls are at least working and earning their own money and many have been more successful since the show in various things.
@Equality, exactly— at least Meghan WORKED.
Kate has never in her life put in even one (!) full day of work, and has never known the feeling of buying something she earned with her own money. This is not something to be proud of, although Kate seems to think it is.
There is an article hard to find that interviews the owner of a yacht where kate worked at one summer. There are many mentions of kate wearing super short shorts to entice the male customers which was not part of the official uniform. I think here again we have more projection on Meghan on trashy things kate did herself. The entire yacht girl insult relates more to kate who literally worked on a yacht than it ever did to Meghan, who had legitimate acting jobs.
I like pointing out to the naysayers that Meghan’s show Suits was second only to Thrones in viewership numbers for cable TV shows.
Her hyprocrisy in belittling Meghan’s acting career! Barbara Taylor Bradford isn’t exactly Elena Ferrante
Exactly this. She was the star. It wasn’t forced. It is what it is. They feel the loss of it and they resent it so much. The bitterness.
They must feel the loss of Meg’s presence if they can’t stop themselves from writing about her 2 years after she stepped back from royal duties AND left their country. Good God, that’s obsessed.
And people can stop with the transparent excuse that one of the main reasons for the poor treatment of Meghan was because she was an American. Some of these Brits (Piers Morgan & Barb. Taylor Bradford, apparently) moved to America, for Pete’s sake! (I hear that Bill & Kathy want to visit as well). So, let’s not entertain that fiction again.
Gag me with a spoon.
Yes!! I am so glad that I haven’t eaten as I read this dreck that this whackos are plugging this week…🙄
I picked a really good week to have an infected cracked wisdom tooth that meant I couldn’t eat or drink anything.
Is she refering to Keen as divine? Or is this crazy hag (who doesn’t know anything about Meghans’ thoughts) refering to the ailing queen, when she asks how she stays so slim? Is looking anorectic a thing in the UK again? Weird to focus on the thinness when Keen’s suppose to be conserned about childrens good health, and mental health for all groups. She clearly hasen’t gotten the message through to this Barbara person.
I puzzled over that sentence structure, too. I thought thought she was still talking about the queen when she said divine, then got really confused at the she’s so slim part. The queen? Slim? Oh, right, Kate. That’s her big achievement at 40, still skinny.
There’s no way Meghan went into that situation thinking she was going to be the star. A black woman going into a white, foreign space would never do that. I heard a clip of the BBC podcast about Harry and Meghan where Valentine Low said that people at the Palace thought she was “too American”. Given that KP’s Press Secretary was American, one of the Assistant Private Secretaries was American and one of the Queen’s Ladies in Waiting was American, I have a heard time believing this story. Let’s be clear that Meghan being “too American” was a euphemism for being black. The staff and family didn’t accept and work for Meghan because she was black.
+1
Yep. And, as for this writer person, if she is so against being American she can take her opinionated self back to the UK to stay.
Exactly. Palace staff didn’t want to take orders from Meghan & the rota literally told us that they thought who do you think you are about Meghan especially when her& Harry made requests around their wedding. Camilla Tominey said she heard palace insiders being anti American & misogynistic towards Meghan but NOT RACIST lol. Like it’s believable they could be prejudiced in some areas could magically curb anti blackness.
That picture of Meghan in the car was sad. I think it was first engagement after her letter to her father was published & I remember you could see she was putting on a brave face.
The easiest way to get promo for your project is to insult Meghan so join the club Barbara. People like her have their noses put out that Meghan captured more attention than the (white) people they think deserve to be put on a pedestal. If outsiders are like that I can’t even imagine the jealousy from within the palace. Imagine writing a woman of substance and the only thing you have to say about what makes Kate ‘divine’ is how thin she is.
If anyone is trying to make themselves the star of the royals isn’t it the one doing glam shots at a funeral, doing piano recitals, wearing gold dresses at film premieres, working with media orgs on a gazillion articles of how she’s Catherine the great, the future queen stepping into her own (ignoring Camilla) the saviour of the royal family? Yet somehow that attention stealing narrative never applies to Kate. Wonder why that is.
So CT finds misogyny and xenophobia acceptable?
@Abritguest….its because, despite all those efforts to make kHate the star of the royals, it all falls flat in the face of Meghan merely existing.
And. They. All. Know. it.
Meghan had a real career as an actress, a regular series role on a Prime Time Show. Yet the Kate stans slam her for being an “actress.” Yet when Kate sits and plays the same chords she is the most accomplished woman EVER and of all time, and so CLASSY. When she is so mediocre and not “classy” since she calls attention to herself not the ones who actually performed in the concert and did the real work.
It would never do to say “who is this black woman intruding into our hoity-toity upper-class WHITE space”, so they just say she’s too crass and American as if that makes it any better. Every American should take offense to this tactic.
As for that old hag Bradford, it’s not surprising that the only thing she can think to praise Keen about is being skinny. The vast majority of that woman’s fans have one foot on a banana peel so she’d do well to keep Meghan’s name out of her mouth and worry about herself.
@Tessa, I can’t remember which commenter it was (Eurydice, maybe?), but just a couple of days ago, someone here on CB pointed out that for many of these people, “classy” = white, rich, and thin. And I think that’s absolutely true for everyone who calls Kate classy. (Because god knows her behavior isn’t.)
@Lorelei that’s exactly right. Back in the dark ages of 2016, when i was a naive baby, I kept wondering why the MAGAs were calling of all people Ivana and Melania Trump “classy”, of all things on God’s green earth! Soon figured it out.
This is really what is all boils down to. They just avoid saying the quiet bit out-loud( It is because she is black). All the other parts matter as well but it really is rooted in racism. That’s why so much of their coded language for her beauty was sexualized and other-ed.
I think the article does real damage to Kate. I mean, praising her for her thinness is pretty dangerous and awful.
Hi. As a white American living in Europe, I’ve come across the “too American” thing countless times. It is a real insult here. It is not, generally, intended as a euphemism for race.
She failed? Which is why she outrankes not only the queen but also kate middleton in basically every single study taken worldwide?
From most inspirational royal for youngster, to best royal wedding dress, to most popular worldwide. Meghan ranked #1 for all of these
Lol, remind me, where were Bill and Cathy and the rest of the royal family on the list of the Times 100 most influential?
Exactly lol! Meghan was, and still is, the star of that show. There is a reason why they haven’t stopped mentioning her in all of keens embiggening stories this week.
The British press think that if they keep repeating that Meghan failed, they will convince the public ( and themselves) When Meghan does anything in the US the British press have it as breaking news and they live-streamed her Ellen interview. Kate couldn’t even break the top 10 for her Christmas special.
He little piano performance went viral on youtube and had more that 2 million views. So it did what in needed to do. Still, meghan is the star of that show. Like i said, there is a reason why they can’t praise kate without bringing meghan down.
2 million views isn’t a lot considering they have 11 or 13 million followers on IG.
And she got at least half of those 2 million views bc of the shock factor — that she was actually DOING something for once instead of just hand waving and being keen.
@swirlmamad And there were probably people paid to watch it multiple times and those who watched trying to actually hear her playing and to determine if she really was playing.
@equality, I know — I watched it more than a few times myself for that exact reason!
You tube is also known for bots to boost views. And we know they have purchased bots for IG.
I know for a fact (I screen captured some of them), the comments praising Kate were paid for — IDENTICAL “cut and paste” comments. Imagine having to pay people to pretend to like you?
And my own viewing of the video “counts” towards that 2 million number. That doesn’t mean Kate was successful.
Exactly. The only time the Queen had all eyes on her and admiration was for her coronation. Period. Just like Kate’s only moment of star power was her wedding. The queen hasn’t been an actual star since she was in her 20s. She was soon eclipsed by women like Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn. And even her own sister. And she’s not even old lady icon the way Betty White and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg were. Meghan was and still is the star in that “family”.
Kate didn’t go viral and she certainly wasn’t trending in social media despite all of those views. The ENTIRE Sussex family were trending because of their Christmas card and Meg was trending for 5 days straight because she won against the Daily Fail. Kate’s 4th grade piano recital was supposed to grab headlines worldwide and all people could focus on were H&M’s family. Even the queen got more views.
Was Kate’s grand moment really at her wedding? Because I seem to recall that she was even upstaged by her sister’s ass — on her own wedding day. Sad.
Example number omega of how racist bitches are gonna racist bitch. The only thing I get from all of these white women saying that Meghan doesn’t know her place is that it must really suck to be a POC and having to deal with white women in the UK. If you are serving them, you’re “in your place” and they can treat you poorly. If you outrank, outshine, or outperform them in any way, then you “don’t know your place” and can be treated poorly.
Don’t anyone “not all white women in the UK” at me. I know that. We all know that a lot of Celebitches in the UK are white women who are appalled at how Meghan was treated. And yes we have the same problems in the US. But my god, in the US we have conversations about it. A prominent white woman who said something like this in the media would get called out, publicly. White women are openly saying this shit in the UK and don’t bat an eye. This kind of comment needs to be called out. It’s so much bigger than Meghan. How does “know your place” culture enable racism, hinder societal change, undermine innovation, limit growth? That’s a conversation worth having. Many people at the top of the hierarchy in the UK look pretty damn underwhelming.
The problem in the UK is that racism is intimately bound with classism; and as long as we have a monarchy, a House of Lords, aristocracy, and everyone scrambling to become, at least, part of the middle class, that conversation is never going to be had.
Andrew’s Nemesis I am American but that is what I see too. The Aristo’s don’t accept Kate either because of classism. But she doesn’t outshine and she is not POC, so she is tolerated. Racism is at the root of what happened to Meghan and made the reaction so severe, but classism would have doomed any American particularly if she had charisma challenging their own self importance.
Totally agree with your statement. Enough with the public fawning over people with titles. We are in 2022 not 1422! Marrying into or being born from a certain family does not make you any more superior or brilliant than any one else.
You just have more money….
I think it is also that the royals don’t like really gifted and intelligent women. Diana was born an aristo but she was treated very badly by that family and Harry has compared how Meghan is being treated to the way his mother was treated. I think the royals just like Stepfords.
Lmao, imagine writing a book called a Woman of Substance then praising, a woman with no substance, there’s some irony for you 😂🙃
I do wish we had ‘like’ buttons on this site…
@Andrew’sNemesis, I was just telling Becks I wish we had DMs on here!
I didn’t catch that, you’re so right! She’s bashing the only woman with substance!
🤣🤣🤣
Um…er…why is Bradford living in New York if she’s so dedicated to royalism? Shouldn’t she be trying to be a Turnip Toff or something?
@Deering, I’m positively dying at “Shouldn’t she be trying to be a Turnip Toff…?” 😭
@Scorpion omg somehow I missed that! Perfection. COTW
LMAO, Deering!
@Scorpion
+1000
Great catch @Scorpion. Workshy Will and Duchess Dolittle are the antithesis of Bradford’s main characters in A Woman of Substance and A Man of Honour.
Bradford also called Trump ‘normal and nice’. Dec. 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/04/barbara-taylor-bradford-on-love-tragedy-and-ambition-ive-always-had-a-backbone-of-steel
@AGreatReckoning, well, since she called Trump, “normal and nice” we can automatically dismiss anything else this steel marshmallow says, ever.
Yes @ Lorelei. Bradford has also been friends with Rupert Murdoch for decades.
If you search This is Your Life Barbara Taylor Bradford Rupert Murdoch a story should come up how Bradford flew into Heathrow on a Concorde to have dinner with Murdoch in 1989.
This picture is from 2015.
https://barbarataylorbradford.com/gallery/literacy-partners/
That biiitch bradford is still alive? Isnt she pushing 100 now?
She’s 88 — I just googled her. That’s why I said upthread that her fans (as well she herself) have one foot on a banana peel.
Oddly enough she wrote about a spirited woman who had a career and went on to run a company. Kate could not do that in a billion years.
Yes, that caught my attention as well. If you read the books, her main character, Emma, pulls herself from nothing, WORKS LIKE HELL to achieve her dreams, to BECOME a woman to be reckoned with. The only dream Buttons McMutton has achieved is bedding and wedding Bitter Brother.
Oh, and I guess not working. She’s pulled that one off for her whole adult life now.
And Emma was not about her appearance. It was about her spirit, ability and drive to run a company.
But, see, Emma is the “right” kind of substantive woman—English-rose-with-grit, white, making money “respectably.” 🤮🤮🤮
*looks at shelf full of BTB books, thinking it’s time for the library to get them*. Of all the authors, this woman whose heroine built an empire through hard work and determination, is the last person who needs to be criticizing Meghan. She obviously has an excellent imagination, because she wrote books beloved and admired by millions, while hiding her true personality. An ugly personality, at that. Oh, well…I’ll have an entire shelf for other books once I donate hers…
Spot on Scorpion
@Scorpion. You’re right. The Brits praise Kate for zero confidence/ doing nothing and, at 40 years old and almost 11 years into apprenticeship as queen consort, is still “coming into her own.” Coming into her own what ? LOL 😂 ! On the other hand, they want to destroy Meghan who has long come into her own, who is confident, intelligent and articulate.
These people will NEVER get over how quickly and easily Meghan outclassed all of them on the world stage. It was right after their royal tour as a couple, where those massive crowds of young people were screaming out to her/them. That tour was what started all of this: it told the royal family that Meghan had a power that they could neither match nor co-opt. That terrified them, because they realized she had basically come to finish what Diana started, to expose all their claims of primogeniture and privilege for the nonsense they are. She was Black, a divorcee daughter of divorced parents, a “showgirl”, with no real money or titles to her name. And yet she shone more brilliantly than all of them combined. I have to be honest, it would do a number on me too, psychologically.
She also proved that their “job” is not that hard. From her very first official appearance as Harry’s fiance, Meghan made royal work look easy and effortless. That was a total embarrassment to Will and Kate, who are lazy and terrible at their jobs.
It raised the question of “If royal work is that easy, do we really need a royal family to do it? Couldn’t anyone–any celebrity–do this kind of thing?”
Her place is wherever she is. We don’t live in feudal times.
Poor Cathy, it’s her birthday week and all anyone can write about is Meghan. Lies about Meghan for sure but nobody cares about Cathy, her piano ‘playing’, or her birthday.
Lol, true.
Ugh… The Today show is having an embiggening piece on her in the next hour. 🤮 More fawning, bowing and scraping to come until next week.
Yes, the constant Meghan hate simply I illuminates the KKK mediocrity and the RR desire for $$. It’s Kate’s bday and all anyone can focus on is another female. KKK cannot sell clicks by herself even when preQueening,
@Lizzie: I actually think that the bashing that Meghan is getting in all these “Kate at 40” pieces this week have been sanctioned by Kate and KP. Meghan is in Kate’s head and the only way she thinks she can bring her down a peg and put her in her place is to allow her friends and staff to bash Meghan in the press.
Yes, these articles definitely have Kate’s approval. No doubt.
Check out Omid’s twitter. Some crazy woman wrote a piece praising Kate while bashing Meghan, Letizia and Charlene.
Just saw that. Wow, that woman is unhinged.
It seems like the roaches are crawling out of the woodwork to bash Meghan to deflect from Andrew’s problems. No one has seen or heard from Meghan or Harry in weeks, and the BM is full of anti Meghan hit pieces. It’s such craziness.
Isn’t Kate embarrassed by this point?! And if not, how??
Is she truly so vapid that she sees all of these as positive puff pieces, not caring who else the authors have to trash in order to make her look better? If I was Kate, I would be on the phone apologizing to Letizia and Charlene this very moment, insisting I had absolutely nothing to do with that garbage, and then I’d send them both flowers.
But traditionally, Kate only complains about articles that say something that offends *her* personally, right? She doesn’t appear to care who else is thrown under the bus in service of making her seem useful.
God I would be MORTIFIED if I was Kate right now.
Flowers with notes of apology, Lorelei.😉 Kate should be distancing herself from this. Imagine denigrating other royals to uplift a birthday celebration, that’s taking a birthday bash to a whole other level!
I just went and read the article in Omid’s twitter feed. I’ve never read such bitchery. I am amazed that it is printed even in a tabloid. I’m just speechless. Who would even want to put their name to such a “thing?”
It really just shows how insecure KKKeen, The Other Brother, and their minions are. Queen Meghan lives in their heads 24/7/365. What’s so funny to me is they live in such a distorted from reality, yes-man bubble that they think they’re actually winning! That they have no one brave enough to tell Keen and Mean that they look like absolute racist buffoons to the rest of the world! (“Funny” isn’t really the right word seeing as how much pain and danger Meghan has been in, but you know what I mean.)
Their not that far in the bubble. If they were they could ignore Meghan. But they hear the stories. And they also hear the thrum of the people saying get rid of the monarchy. That is what’s terrifying them. I personaly believe the Queen will pass, and Charles will become King. Only because that is the custom. But Charles will be the last Monarch of England. People don’t like him at all. And they can’t stand William. And more and more people are realizing that the British Royal Family don’t really do anything for England. They just take.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people? Meghan and Harry are gone, they are nowhere near their so-called “polite society” yet they just can’t seem to leave them alone. And the over the top praising of William and Kate is so ridiculous that anyone can see the insincerity. The more these hateful people open their mouths the more grateful I am that Harry and Meghan got out of Dodge.
But she WAS the star of the red carpet (and is). That photo of her in blue with Harry in the rain is iconic. She’s on the Time most influential list. Keen faded into the background whenever Meghan was around (which was a big part of the problem). What is that old biddly BTB on about?
Kate never had the star power Meghan does. Remember the Vogue cover and the poor sales? They tried to say that this was because it wasn’t the September issue, but it was a special anniversary issue and Kate on the cover didn’t sell. That was years before Meghan was in the picture.
Ah BTB had a new book come out, she must be plugging it by riding on the controvesy that is Meghan, I wonder if they still get turned into miniSeriess. You know what it dosent matter if, she was an A,Z list starlet, She (Meghan) put the royal family on the map the way no other person has Bar Lady Di, and they treated her the same way, they never learn.
The supposed writer might want to look up the definition of “starlet” before using the word. I’ve never read her books or seen any of her mini series and now I certainly won’t.
Can someone please tell me who makes this pretty black dress in the first picture? I’ve seen it on everyone over the last 10 years from Lauren Conrad on the Hills to morning show hosts and real housewives.
@helenmarieg003 It’s a black halo dress. Very classic until I saw Kelly Anne Conway wear it.
Black halo. She’s also worn some Roland Mouret that are similar. Meghan’s dress the night before the wedding and the grey dress in Ireland are Roland Mouret.
@HelenMarie, Meghan also once wore a black dress from Marks & Spencer that looks very similar to the Jackie O, but is a lot less expensive than Black Halo’s version (I only remember this because I bought the same one after Meghan wore hers!).
The M&S dress that Meghan wore was about $50 USD, and Black Halo Jackie O dresses are usually around $400. Meghan’s M&S one will still pop up on eBay occasionally, though.
https://www.hellomagazine.com/fashion/royal-style/2018120865424/meghan-markle-mark-and-spencer-dress-back-in-stock-fashion/
@Snoopy, ugh, KellyAnne wore one too? Now it might be ruined for me ):
My goodness. Salty Isle’s obsession with the Duchess of Sussex is so real. It’s wild to me that literally not a day goes by without multiple prominent people in the UK talking about/badmouthing Queen Meghan! It’s mind blowing. And it really just shows Meghan’s worldwide power and influence or they just wouldn’t care! They simultaneously say how irrelevant she is while talking about her nonstop. How do they not see how stupid they look?! Not to mention delusional because everything they spout about her is a lie.
Did you all see that piece from one of Boris’s mistresses praising Keen and slamming Meghan (and various other European queens and princesses)? Firstly it reads like complete satire…but it’s not. And it’s just another example of the Meghan obsession. They cray cray.
Yeah. Omid tweeted about that crazy piece. I wonder if Albert will comment on that like he did on H&M. With one of them coming for white women now I wonder how Kate’s PR will be accepted.
Is that the Glinda/Wicked Witch piece? It was so weird and salivating, over the top and all over the place – I wondered if it wasn’t some kind of satire.
I don’t think it was satire. I think it was a combination of racism and misogyny and also what happens when you sit down to write a puff piece and realize there is actually nothing to say. Like it was almost something i might have written in high school if I was told to write a positive piece on the duchess of cambridge and I knew nothing about her besides her looks.
Yeah, that piece was a trip. It had the nerve to compare Kate to Princess Grace as an exemplar of classy—blithely ignoring the latter was an actress and American.
@Becks1 – I don’t think it’s a puff piece; I think it’s bats**t crazy. This woman writes like one of those obsessive and possibly murderous fans that you see in movies. It’s like she’s covered her walls with photos of Kate and has conversations and tea parties with them. And on another wall she’s got a dartboard with Meghan’s face on it. Slavish and drooling and very, very weird.
Its what Boris’s supporters want to hear though, and they need to be fed a steady diet.
Meghan left the U.K. more than 2 years ago. The establishment’s obsession is like the master and a runaway slave.
Please rethink your choice of words.
Why? That’s how they’re treating her, as if there is some ownership over her person.
This is not normal behaviour.
This is the (modern) monarchy problem. The King/Queen is supposed to be not only the ruler, but the best person in the land. Used to be that is you didn’t believe that, you could in theory start a war and force the King to prove he was the rightful ruler. We’ve done away with that sort of violence, which is a good thing. However, we now have the obviously not the best Britain has to offer people and no way to do anything about it.
It’s truly an emperor with no clothes situation. With a very loud Yes, look at their beautiful clothes! contingent.
Never seen ut as the best, but the most powerful (in ancient times). Other royals (in other countries) are “popular” without the star dust and charisma Meghan and Harry have. The main reason are their work ethics and more down to earth behaviour. Other royals and their courts have evolved with the society and are taking active interest in it. If Kate had actually worked and pulled her weight doing bread and butter engagements, more people would respect her. Lack of charisma and inovations wouldn’t be a problem, because she would be what they’re trying to sell her as; a steady rock the queen could rely on. Sadly that’s just a fairy tale.
Meghan is less than, in these peoples’ eyes, just by virtue of existing and breathing. They are racists and think everyone else should abide by this antiquated class system. The thing is for everyone else this system makes no sense so they have to justify that Meghan is less than somehow. So they just invent a whole persona for Meghan that fits this system. Meghan thought she’d be the red carpet star and she’s so terrible. Meghan makes people cry she’s so terrible. Made up reasons to belittle someone so that they fit an outdated class system that an entire media system and aristocracy desperately want to stay in place.
So is the new payment for British honors slamming Meghan? Now someone can’t even mention TQ without name-checking M? But who is the “star”?
I remember Hilary Mantel commented that Kate’s only contribution was that she was thin, and everyone jumped down her throat. As for Meghan thinking that she was going to be the ‘star’ of the red carpet, she made it clear in her engagement interview that she was there to work, travel around the country, and get to know the people and charities in the UK. The other Duchess likes to swan down red carpets instead of doing actual work.
THANK YOU! Exactly!
There’s a reason Mantel is a way more insightful writer-of-substance than Bradford. 😉🤣🤣
…and every time Kate has a birthday/“finds her voice,” Mantel’s takedown of her should be reprinted. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies
I love the part about how the RF are like pandas – expensive to conserve, unsuited to modern life, but very entertaining. Also, love the shout out to Caroline Weber – “Marie Antoinette” is great, and her later book “Proust’s Duchess” is amazing. It looks like a weighty tome, but it’s lovingly researched and highly readable.
The bit about Kate’s dead-eyed portrait is a hoot as well. 🙂
Yay Hilary Mantel! She is an incredible writer 💜 I read her books because of you Celebitches recommendations and I LOVED them. She knows sooo much about the sociopolitical positioning of royals.
For anyone who is interested, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy also has an amazing audiobook with a wonderful actor. Found it at the library via Libby.
Mantel has been proven to be right about her original comment every single year. She said kate was a mannequin and nothing has happened to prove her wrong a decade later.
@Deering24 – Thanks for posting that Mantel essay. What a remarkable bit of writing! It certainly isn’t complimentary to Kate but it doesn’t say much good about the British public/media either. My takeaway is royalty is a pretty horrid concept in the 21st century. I am not a citizen of the UK, but seriously, abolish the monarchy.
You’re welcome! It’s in my list of Top Ten Truth-To-Power Takedowns. 🤣🤣😎😎
Yes, thank you. That is fantastic, and I hadn’t read it before today.
@Deering, I’d love to see the rest of your list!
I liked when Meghan visited schools, and the children’s reactions was so spontaneous.
Harry is so different to his father, he don’t act like a jealous ass, for instance in Australia when the kid held on to the flowers, that he was suppose to him, Harry realized the kid wanted to give the flowers to Meghan.
Harry LOVES that other people love Meghan. He LOVES that people want to see her or talk to her rather than him. There’s no jealousy there, he’s just so proud and thrilled that other people see in her what he sees in her. And that’s just so evident in every appearance where they’re together.
It’s such a contrast to both Charles and William.
PH wasn’t raised to think that he was the most important like PC and PW. There’s a study for Kate’s “early childhood development” to examine: “If you teach a child that he is most important without having to do anything to deserve praise, does it warp him?”
Haha, even this royalist stan can’t pretend with a straight face that William and Kate are doing well – instead they are “growing in stature every day”. Lolololol.
And on Keen’s fortieth birthday, having spent nearly two decades “growing in confidence” in her duties and supposedly any moment now coming into her own, the most that can be said about her is…she’s so slim. That’s horrifying and sad.
what stature is she talking about? Kate is the same as ever.
Of course! Why would she change when her least effort is celebrated as a triumph?
But if even this lying liar can’t pretend Kate is accomplished or successful on her birthday embiggening week, that says something.
It’s like when you have to come up with a year end award for everybody on your team and the best you can come up with is “and Kate…she was also…there… when that happened! Let’s give a round of applause for Kate everyone!”
Except it’s their own damn fault! Kate had nearly 10 damn years to figure it out, even if your charitable and give her a pass for the first four ( and that’s a huge pass) she should have started thinking about her future role when the queen turned 90. What’s sad is that there is some little girl, some where who is going to look up to this woman an think being a doormat who smiles, and stays in the background doing the bare minimum of any kind of work is the way to go! And, if some other woman comes along who’s more articulate then you, or happens to get a little more attention then you, its ok to hate her and use whatever resources you have to take her out. Also, I just can’t get over the parade of idiocy that is the KP pr team. Why can’t they just push the story line that Kate’s greatest accomplishment is being a mother, and unlike the current queen her children will always come before her country and/or herself, lessening the possibility of another randy Andy/ tampon chuck!
Meghan did really try to tone it down for these degenerates and it makes me so angry. That’s why at some point she started wearing those fugly dresses. And all for what? These idiots still won’t keep her name out of their smelly mouths.
I really need my girl to stunt in their faces more. Meghan boo, the next time we see you, you better be dripping in gold and diamonds from top to bottom. Go hang out with Jay and Bey on their yacht and get papped drinking Armand de Brignac Ace of Spades! This year, in addition to your professional work, I want to see you stunt in your haters faces. Give them something to really talk about. If you and Harry are really considering moving, make sure the next house has at least 35 bathrooms. Step out on nothing less than 3 red carpets this year (fingers crossed that the COVID situation gets better) and give us maximum PDA with Harry. Give Christian Siriano that call and make sure he has you looking like the goddess that you are. Plus, if you’re at Invictus, I better see you in a t-shirt with words “I came, I saw, I conquered” emblazoned in front, because we know that’s what you did during your two year stopover in Brexit Island! That’s why these low-lives are so pressed! Stop being so humble, girl! As Bey said, “you know you’re that bi*ch when you cause all this conversation!” Go big, baby!
LMAO! I love all of this, and yes, she needs to take Bey’s words to heart. Meghan is the ONLY conversation these bitter asses are having.
This is don’t outshine the queen, then how Kate is shining star. Makes no sense, except she meant Meghan specifically don’t outshine the queen. And complimenting women on thinness is perpetuating a harmful standard.
It is very bad. Some women have eating disorders because they feel they have to be ultra thin. What century does Taylor Bradford live in?
So this writer slams Meghan now? And what does she say about Kate going on the red carpets in a bright dress making the Bond Premiere all about her, and her father in law has to take a back seat?
Kate’s divine and Stays so Slim. Taylor Bradford keeps that bar very low. Kate caused a lot of the problems and makes everything about “her.” And Will actively works against his brother. He’s like one of the not nice characters in her books.
The Brits have a class system. The people at the top are your “natural betters” (better blood). They believe that people must “know their places” because those who are lesser are really less in England. That is why you bow to the Queen. You are acknowledging that she is your superior. They are fu**ed up.
The thing is though Kate is a commoner. ANd looked down upon by Will’s aristo friends.
This is so pathetic.Taylor Bradford made a lot of money on her books, yet she feels she needs to call attention to herself to overpraise the Cambridges and slam Meghan.
I don’t know Barbara, but it sounds like no one else does either. Aww well. Meghan got more of anything than any of you dried up duds will ever have .And having am eating disorder is how Kate the great stays so thin because william likes them skinny but he doesn’t seem to like her regardless. Meanwhile Harry looks at his hot wife like she is a snack.
It’s like back in the fifties and sixties and those TV commercials where women are looking at another woman and saying HOW does she stay so SLIM? Taylor Bradford lives in the past. Kate is no role model, why isn’t she talking about the real accomplished women including those working on the front lines during COVID pandemic.
The jealousy is ridiculous, and it’s clearly through Kate. Remember when Kate told Chelsy that Harry will cheat like all the Windsor men? There are no rumors of Harry having sidepiece(s) on Meghan’s watch. That has to kill Kate because it amplifies the stories about William’s wandering scepter. That Harry walked away from the institution for Meghan and Archie really stings. Kate got the ring and royal being, but no zing of real love from the prince she chased down.
Have there ever been any rumors of Harry cheating any time he was in a committed relationship? Will and Kate dated forever but she was never his only woman. I’ve never heard mention of Harry cheating on anyone.
I haven’t either and the way Harry was scapegoated so much there is no way it would have been kept quiet. I think at most he ended the Cressida relationship poorly, but there were never stories where he had women on the side while still in a serious relationship.
When I saw this headline I thought “What, the red carpet in front of the Hubb kitchen and Smart Works?” That’s where she spent a lot of her time.
But I like that she allowed herself to shine for the coulda had a bad bitch tour, no more dimming her light for that jealous family
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When this writer will be going around doing interviews in US to sell her book?
I hope decent interviews or reporters will ask her about this piece written about meghan.
Wouldn’t it be great if Meghan stepped out one day in a sweatshirt that read “haters gonna hate” on it? These stories are so tired. She wasn’t chasing fame. She wasn’t competing with old Queen for the spotlight. She fell in love with a prince.
This article written by the out of touch Barbara Taylor Bradford captures the royal family perfectly. Lots of racism, tons of jealousy and no real brains.
All the writers got the same memo. Kate good,Meghan bad. It is all so easy to read when you see the projection needed to raise TweedleDumb to new heights.
How does she stay so slim? Too much exercise and not enough food. It’s very simple,
It was a rhetorical question.
Bradford was praising Kate for being model-slim and a form of self control.
The toffs value slimness above pretty much everything.
William likes slender women. In attempting to keep him interested and compete with his side pieces, she really needs to keep thin. It’s survival. It’s what he expects.
I do notice she lost the baby weight after Louis probably a little too fast. The Rose visits came when Kate was pregnant with Louis. I think that’s why she got so thin. But it is not good for her physical or emotional health in the long run. IMO.
She seems to be the thinnest she’s ever been. At least it’s more obvious now that she’s getting older. And William is ignoring her in public even more than before.
No the weight loss was about harry marrying. Not anything to do with silly willy
When harry was around she showed willy very little attention. Pictures are worth a thousand words.
I imagine the BM is going through the list of people given an OBE or the like to get a negative quote about Meghan because it seems to be the only way for them to celebrate Kate’s birthday. It really is embarrassing for Kate.
The BRF and their sycophants don’t understand too that M&H’s appeal goes beyond the superficial. They’re popular not just because of how they look or what they wear (esp M), but because they also have heart, empathy, humor, courage, and so many other positive traits. And the BRF have no idea how to compete w that…
I get that the Fail is feeling salty and bruised after their massive legal loss but this is ridiculous. The constant articles about Meghan this part week, dredging up every bitter statement from every random person, seems really insane. It’s really nuts. When was the last time we actually saw Meghan? November? This is utterly bonkers the amount of headlines about her,based on absolutely nothing. Did I mention it was absolutely insane.
Guess they’ve decided to just jump the shark and lean into the crazy.
Is Bradford going in for flattery so she can get a title?
1. Meghan was a star on the red carpet without even trying.
2. She is a smart lady, so I am certain she NEVER thought she would outshine the Queen.
3. And obviously and gloriously she didn’t know her “place” as others construed it for her. She commanded the space she inhabited naturally, and they freaked out over how high that place was. Good.
Was Bradford the author who wanted to adopt Meghan’s dog? No, I think that was Sally Bedell Smith.
When Bradford says Meghan wanted to outshine the queen, really what she wants to say is Meghan outshone Kate but they can’t say it out loud yet so they hide behind pretending they’re defending the queen. But they all know Meghan did outshine Kate and also William.
When is this going to become boring? Enough is enough.
sorry, double comment
“Meghan came to the UK imagining she’d be the star of the red carpet …”
And she was!
What’s the discussion?
What they have never said or given Meghan credit for, is that that girl came to please. She did everything in her power to please them. It was written all over her face, and all over her work history. From the astonishing things she did on her own such as the Together cookbook that was so innovative and did so much concrete good to the people she helped, to the clothes initiative to help women get back to work. And then when she and Harry were sent out on their tours, before she gave birth and when she had just had a baby and was breast feeding. She never said no, she tried her best to accommodate the Firm. Nothing she did was appreciated or good enough. I’ve always thought that adversity was a great sifter, through it you can always tell who your friends are. I feel that through this adversity and abuse of Meghan, people are showing who they really are, and what they really are made of. At this point, I don’t even think that detractors feel it is expected of them to make sense or be logical. Because they aren’t. How I wish there was a forum to where Sussex supporters could reply to these vile people.
@Therese, that’s a really important point.
Therese I wd never, ever, ever reply to them. Haters hate and are not rational. I think the James Blunt approach is sublime. Just laugh at them. Anything else is just letting them press your buttons, it gives them more oxygen which they crave, they delight in knowing them have got at you and it means they have won. So no, I choose not to engage.
Meghan and Harry are a class act. That ‘family’ if they were not ‘royal’ . Well my God. You would not want them for neighbours. They are all Unemployed, Work shy, one of them is an alleged paedophile, and they are racists. You totally would not want them as neighbours and I resent that one of them is our head of state.
Australia, republic now please.
@Therese, your comment is incisive and correct. She came to not just work, but to do work that would be justifiably creditable and elevating to the firm and to the family. No one I know goes into a family – and in this case – also a job, overseas no less, to be disruptive, bring ruin or to fail. She really wanted to do well and to please them. It is patently obvious that this family and the work environment is a diaster zone of nuclear proportion. This nuclear family and its systems of support are nuclear.
These people, for all their supposed airs and “breeding” are stunted, backwards, boorish, and barbarous. They are ignorant to everything but their own needs and consequence. They do not subscribe to the idea that a rising tide lifts all boats. They took the “foreigner”, the black/person of colour, the woman, and offered her as sacrifice to save themselves and their “dignity”. Anne Frank wrote “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” Who knew that gospel choir singing This Little Light of Mine at their wedding would define her time in the House of Windsor? She shone a light on them for who and what they are, and rightfully left after trying mightily hard.
I mean it’s clear she was and is the star. She had more followers on social media than the British royals at any time and the average person was more likely to think about an episode of Suits on a given day than any of the mediocre people propping up a dusty, irrelevant colonial relic. Been two years since she left and they’re still pressed.
I love the comment – she was handed an OBE by the Queen. Makes me think there’ s a box of them and QE2 is saying “here Barbara, you take one.” Like a BOGO sale
Since the world learned that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were dating, a Meghan Markle article, news report, or mention appears on some media platform every day. The mortgages, tuition, car notes, etc., her name and face have paid is phenomenal. She has women of all ages cringing. Many beautiful biracial (black) American women appealed to men of all ethnicities; Josephine Baker, Lena Horne, etc. Meghan Markle stepped into the British Royal Family and laid claim on one of the world’s most eligible bachelors. A self-made millionaire marries a man who has never had a job. His financial portfolio includes his mother’s inheritance and perhaps a military pension. She invaded their space and revealed to the world how artificial and manipulative they were. And they’ve been angry since that day. Reading the negative article written by PM Boris Johnson’s former mistress convinced me that they’re approaching rock bottom with immeasurable speed. I love that Meghan doesn’t respond, which pisses them off even more. Their New Year begins as the last, throwing rocks at a moving target. Her New Year begins depositing a huge check courtesy of Lord Rothmere. He underestimated the power of an intelligent woman and overestimated the envy of a narcissistic heir. Keep your foot on the accelerator and your eyes on the rearview mirror Duchess Megham. Let them eat cake.
I think they don’t understand how many biracial girls see themselves in Meghan and how they treated her so inhumanely, is an embarrassment. She is one of the first most famous biracial women and the Brits treat her like this. It’s a sad state for humanity. Some people don’t want to change they like the way things are just fine b cause they are on top forget equality.
Technically Harry did have a job for a long time serving in the military, I would consider that a real job.
Didn’t this gushing hag literally write some crap about a young woman from a humble background becoming a self-made rich and powerful tycoon? I vaguely remember seeing a mini-series when I was in primary school, or maybe a serialisation in my gran’s New Idea mags.
A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE, which spawned seven (?) sequels and prequels.
Where I’m from we have a saying: jealousy is a sickness
Wait how does WHO stay slim? Kate? because she practically starves herself she hates fat. And really dm what is this triangulation with a biracial women, I notice how you wrote the article, it was the queen, will and Kate against Meghan, you wouldn’t be so bold as to posture your golden child princess to the queen. They are so obvious. We all know if you want to be kind to Meghan you would leave her name out of it. Dm hires only mean girls and Karen’s. I noticed a lot of women on my British page have been getting annoyed of Kate too. She’s overdoing it and nobody likes a drama queen
You know who benefits from women judging eachother so harshly?
crappy rich white men
These self-appointed gatekeepers and snobs 🤦♀️ so willing to throw another woman under the bus, and for what? It’s not worth it to leave the world a worse place for our daughters.
Yep, men and mysoginistic women. Skinny is the feminine ideal, you will never see Kate veer too far from that.
Seriously. Building on both of our points – I really worry about the little girls who are told they are going to meet a princess, get really exited… And they get Kate.
Children remember things, and I just worry about what lessons they take from all these really disappointing adults, praising her for her… body. Regardless of who she is personally, the kind of narratives around Kate are really toxic and regressive.
I just wish they would leave this poor woman alone and let her breathe, live, and Thrive. I am so sick of how horrific people treat her because she’s POC, because she has charisma, star power, and a husband who is a member of some royal family.
A woman of substance was a TERRIBLE book. Just had to say that. I recall trying to read it in my early teens and being put off because the title sounded inspiring but the book was a potboiler.
For context; Barbara Taylor Bradford wrote a phenomenal series about a totally self made woman who stomped on convention and class structures to become titan of industry. And gave two less than one f@#&$ about how others viewed her success.
The whole quote by BTB is almost as bizarre as dude tweeting it out like it was a mic drop. Almost.
I think it’s time for a clearing out of my bookshelf. All these hypocrite racist white authors will be assigned to the flee market.
The fact of the matter is, whether you like Meghan or not, she left the UK to pursue a life in the United States. So shut up about her already! (This is to the royal family and their hangers-on, not to posters!) Why do they have to bring her into everything? What happened to never complain/never explain? I think they think that every mention of Meghan in no matter what context makes them look better. They don’t seem to get their strategy makes them look ridiculous and only emphasizes their shortcomings. And again, whether your a Meghan fan or not, there is no denying that her way with the public, her sincere interest in people, her work ethic and natural glow put dull, useless Kate to shame. If Kate were a more dynamic, hard-working member of the family, if she had an ounce of charisma, if she showed interest and follow through in her brilliant projects (5 Questions?!!!!), they might have let Meghan shine. But how dare this American, divorced, biracial woman outshine Kate the Great? I mean, Kate is so thin! She comes from a normal, middle-class family. Or does she come from the “fake rich girl” background the Middletons starting pushing years ago? No matter. Kate’s got it all!
Come on, Linney. Don’t mock Kate for only coming up with 5 questions as a project. After all, she only had 8 YEARS to do it!
You are right. My apologies. LOL!
I am not on Twitter, but I hope Meghan’s 40×40 initiative trends again today as people are reminded of how she spent her milestone birthday. A good start to the new year!
Meghan’s 40×40 initiative has been mentioned on Omid’s Twitter and it would be funny if it trended on Kate’s birthday. Trashing royal consorts who had accomplishments before marrying their royal men makes the Duchess of Did-Little and Does Nothing look pathetic.
The criticism against Meghan from these aristocratic types about how “she didn’t know her place” all boil down to just this: Meghan thought she was a human being who was equal to all the other members of the royal family, and therefore just as worthy of respect, consideration and decency as they were.
The BRF, their staff, and the aristocracy, all disagreed with that basic premise. They thought that because Meghan married into the family, was not born into aristocracy, was Harry’s wife, was an American, and biracial, that she was automatically entitled to less respect, consideration, and decency than anyone else in the RF. For them, they decide how much respect and consideration someone gets based on their rank and the circumstances of one’s birth. Not your accomplishments, talents, and hard work.
Even if she was * expecting* to be a red carpet star, she sure was. She effortlessly outshone Every. Single. One. Of them. LOl at salty isle they are literally choking the life out of themselves with this bitterness towards Megan. Clean the dirt in your OWN “royal” (what utter rubbish) house first, you inbred trashy hillbillies!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Glad I never read any of this woman’s book.