This week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made some announcements which were simply confirmations of plans which had long been rumored. The only real “news” was that Prince Harry would stop by London to attend the WellChild Awards on September 7th and then he would be on to Dusseldorf to attend the Invictus Games, where he will be joined by Meghan a few days into the games. Harry has made it clear that his brief stop in England is purely about his patronage and not any family reunion or commemoration of his late grandmother. In turn, the Windsors have made it abundantly clear for months that they are not hosting any kind of memorial event on QEII’s death-anniversary, and even if they were, Harry and Meghan would not be invited. Instead of acknowledging those facts – that Harry doesn’t want to see the Windsors, and the Windsors don’t want to see him – the usual British media suspects are screaming, crying and throwing up over the fact that Meghan refuses to join her husband on that leg of his trip. From Jan Moir’s column in the Daily Mail:
Royal-watchers spotted a cloud of black smoke rising over assorted palaces and castles this week, part of a sad new ritual called the Bonfire of the Olive Branches. For when it comes to relations between the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, we’re looking at a burnt-out bombsite where a family used to be.
Relations are at rock bottom, clemency is in the deep freeze. The outstretched hand has been withdrawn and the peace pipe has been doused with a thousand duchessy tears. It is over.
In September, Prince Harry will visit the UK to attend an awards ceremony for the WellChild charity on the day before the anniversary of the Queen’s death. But there are no plans to meet his father or his brother. Apparently, he is not even going to the private family dinner at Windsor to remember Elizabeth II. He then goes on to Germany for the Invictus Games, where his wife will fly out to join him.
The message from Meghan couldn’t be clearer. She is never going to set foot in the grey, cake-filled, miserable UK again if she can possibly help it.
Perhaps being forbidden to attend the Queen’s deathbed at Balmoral — to shed light, to empower, to recommend a turmeric cleanse and some yoga stretches to the woman she never knew as Gan-Gan — was the last straw. And if there is a role for her as wifely appeaser to help heal the rift between her husband and his family, she has chosen to avoid that, too. As is her right.
But there is a puzzling disconnect about all this bitter friction. The Duke and Duchess keep embracing big themes such as reconciliation and family. They talk earnestly of healing, humanity and hope but, somehow, never apply these messages to themselves and their relationships with their families, which are as toxic as a giant hogweed swamp.
Again, Harry set his boundary: the Windsors need to apologize to Meghan before anything can be reconciled. That’s it. And they can’t do that. They can’t admit that they were wrong, that they miscalculated, that they were abominable to Meghan, that their goal was to drive her to divorce or suicide. Meanwhile, King Charles’s first act as king was to ban Meghan from Balmoral, telling Harry that the king’s daughter-in-law and mother of his grandchildren is not “family.” Then Charles briefed the Mail so that everyone would know that he was punishing his Black daughter-in-law for the crime of wanting to hold her husband’s hand as he mourned his beloved grandmother.
Moir is arguing that Harry and Meghan need to make the first steps for some reason. What’s especially bonkers is that… Harry actually did make the first step. He attended his father’s coronation (which Charles scheduled for Archie’s birthday), even though his father is an abusive ass. Instead of building on that, Charles proceeded to flee the city whenever Harry was in town and Charles still refuses to speak to his younger son. Anyway, I hope Meghan stays away forever! If she ever does visit that salty island, they’ll do whatever they can to hold her hostage again.
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Those two weeks after TQs death day after day of trauma for H&M. I would never ever go again, if I were her.
Meghan doesn’t go to Britain because Meghan is unsafe in Britain. Not only are Charles and William responsible for igniting the nation’s fire of hatred against Meghan, but they refuse to offer her protection. Harry won’t risk losing his wife like he did his mother, so Meghan won’t ever go back to Britain. It’s a matter of safety, not hurt feelings and olive branches.
Yes Moir “ as is her right”. She doesn’t have to subject herself to the filth and hate that You so called journalists have thrown at her. She no longer will be part of Yours and the Royal Cult’s racist actions against her “as is her right”. So having acknowledged her rights why don’t you go slink back to your dark and filthy basement and shut the f up!
Well said!
That bitch has a nerve to say that Meghan would impose anything on a dying grandmother, queen or not. She’s got more class and empathy than the Windsors combined.
That is by far the most overtly offensive article that has been written to diminish and hurt Meghan since that hateful piece by Jeremy Clarkson. My blood is boiling …
American tourists should #Boycott Britain.
“American tourists should #Boycott Britain.”. @cara, I am doing my bit to aid in this boycott! Someone mentioned to me the other day that she wanted to go to London as a tourist in the next year; and, I could not have been more clear about questioning her wanting to go to such a racist, misogynistic, xenophobic and outright bonkers island. I suggested continental Europe instead
@Cara, I totally agree. I was shocked that was published. It is not only abhorrent but so juvenile, jfc.
Agreed @susanCollins, and Susan, the only smoke I can see is coming from Balmoral, where Charlie and his chocolate minions are spinning so fast that they are setting fire to their carpets
They are spinning about olive branches when all they held out was a branch of thorns to try and trap Harry. They are spinning that willy boy is not a lazy ass, when we all know he is, they are spinning that Kate is the patron saint of mother’s, when she is in fact someone who uses her children to publicise herself
And fleet street is spinning ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING to do with Harry and Megan to try and make them look bad, but it’s failing, because THEY CAN’T TOUCH OR CONTROL Harry or Megan and Iove it. Wouldn’t it be lovely if all this spinning and smoke, was a sign of a new “great fire of London”
@Mary Pester. Yes they sure are spinning. I wonder if like the wicked witch of the west in OZ if we threw a bucket of water on them would they disintegrate? Some one over there should get a bucket of holy water and throw it on them to see😂😂
@Susan Collins
Perfectly stated.
Moir et al should take your advice. But these nasty crowbaits who scrounge for crumbs from their betters, would have no other reason to continue breathing.
You can’t reason with religious fanatics. The RF comes from God and the worshipers are rewarded with money and special favors. The only way is if the worshipers dwindle and/or the money dries up.
Love “religious fanatics” especially in light of british belief that RF (i.e. BRFCo) is ordained by God to rule by virtue of their inbred bloodline.
BTW was reading Vanity Fair article about Meghan’s wedding dress where they talked with Claire Waight Keller about inspiration for the dress. Has that godawful fake family cum-business ever returned HER dress after exhibiting it?
Agreed. My God, this crazy bitch doesn’t even remotely live in reality. Please explain to me how the very people who have written vile “articles” about Meghan, multiple times a day, for SEVEN YEARS can now state, with zero irony, “the message from Meghan couldn’t be clearer. She is never going to set foot in the grey, cake-filled, miserable UK again if she can possibly help it.”
YOU did this, “royals” and “reporters” alike. Meghan was all in, for ALL of you. She was going to spend the rest of her life serving the “royal family”, in whatever way she could help. Just find a deep hole and fall into it, humanity will be better off without you. This is insufferable, what they have done to Meghan is beyond my comprehension, and they won’t stop, even though she left like they wanted her to, YEARS AGO.
The current royal family DO NOT COME FROM GOD. It has been documented by historical research and DNA evidence that the Tudor branch who, centuries later, became a German + Romanian-born Draculean monarchy, are ILLEGITIMATE USURPERS.
The real heirs to the English throne live in Australia. They are humble people with an authenticated prestigious family tree descending from the FRENCH PLANTAGENÊTS, the original English monarchs.
Sorry, but the Battenberg 🤡s are not God-anointed. Leave God out their mess, please.
#Abolish the monarshit#
God didn’t appoint anyone to run any countries 🙄
And we should believe you because He told you so 🙄
Glad He appointed you to make that point.
Jan Moir’s always been bigoted and poisonous – Google her name and Stephen Gateley (a gay singer who died young).
Is it a British trait to rewrite history, gloss over it and to play victim? They have peace with their family, Doria and Eugenie. Smh
it’s a colonialist/fascist/white supremacist trait. the haters over in the UK are the folks who voted for Brexit because they believed the racist BS used to sell it. They are the same as Trumpublicans in the US. It’s a death cult of xenophobic haters
Meghan will do whatever she wants, whenever she wants. She is free and the BM and RF have no say in that. Hard to imagine Black women having freedom and agency, I know. But…there it is.
Freedom, agency, a love-filled life, and a kick-ass wardrobe.
I am so here for it!
The quieter Meghan and Harry are, the starker Will and Kate’s failings become. That’s one big reason they’re mad: no Meghan media circus distractions (and obviously no money shot pics and no chance to abuse her).
Also, Harry stoically stopping in England to support a charity with which he clearly has a deep and meaningful relationship is such an unflattering contrast with his brother. In fact, name one of Wills’ patronages, I defy you.
FA:) Thanks to Willie being a misogynistic douche everybody can name one of his charities. I sat here for 2 minutes trying to think of another one and I can’t.
Ummmmmm, the Football Association? No….wait! lol. The only ones I can think of are BAFTA and the Football Association— and the only reason I remember those is because his “support” seems worse than no support at all. (William is the last year’s bra of patrons.)
You’re right, I don’t think I can name one! (not counting BAFTA)
I know what he considers his big “causes” to be since he’s always happy to TALK about how committed he is to them (lol), but in terms of an organization that he actually *works* with consistently, and is associated with in the way that Harry is associated with WellChild? Nope, I’m drawing a blank.
ETA: Actually, isn’t the Tusk Trust one of them? BUT I only know that because (I’m pretty sure?) it’s affiliated with Jecca, so he’s stuck with that one longer than he does with most. William doesn’t do anything unless there’s something in it for him personally, and he wants to keep his connection to Jecca.
It’s so frustrating and sad that such a pathetic person is heir the throne. A better person (cough, Harry) could do so much good with that kind of platform and amount of power. Sigh.
Does he have one for the elephants and rhinos? Because they’re “his”, you know.
See, everyone’s responses are convincing me that we only remember the patronages because of some kind of notoriety (Jecca, that long, silent walk at BAFTA and Joaquin Phoenix’s death stare).
Meanwhile, there’s Harry stoically dropping into England for a day because he’s so dedicated to Well Child. The fact that Meghan isn’t going really emphasizes that they would rather never be in England (Moir got that part right lol), but Harry will make the sacrifice for one of his beloved patronages. SUCH a difference between these two couples my goodness.
So, they knock her for having the audacity to want to be with her husband the day his grandmother died, because she now apparently barely knew her, but also blame her for not pushing Harry to reconcile with people who tell the media weekly how much they hate him, hate his wife, think they are awful people and work closely with people how would like to see her dragged through the streets and pelted with shit, and claim her children are dolls. Yet they are puzzled as to why she doesn’t want to come to that country?
So much fucking word, Dee.
“It is over!” Lol, no it’s not – Jan will keep wailing and crying and bitching and moaning for as long as she gets paid to do so.
Obviously Jan is always awful, but man, this particular column is even worse than most. So overwrought and just plain insane. I would legit be concerned for her mental health if (god forbid!!) she was one of my loved ones.
I guess someone had to fill the void of over-the-top batsh!ttery left by Wootton.
She’s so obsessed she’ll probably write one more Meghan article on her death bed.
Didn’t “Go Home Meghan” trend on Twitter in the UK during the funeral? Why the heck would she go back there, especially if they keep saying they don’t want her there. Man are they ever exhausting, now complaining that she’s not coming back to be abused.
Little do these small-minded people realize that they have made many people internationally view the UK as racist, classist bullies who are fine with giving welfare to a billionaire family who is selfish and devoid of empathy. I know I won’t be going back for a visit, even though I have vacationed there regularly (at least 4 times) in the past.
Am with you @Tina, have been to the England (UK) dozens of times over decades. I’m glad all this happened after I’d seen much of the country/museums, etc because no plans to ever go back. Its forever tainted by the entire situation with H&M. And add to that the knowledge about the windrush generation, treatment of migrants/refugees, and all the stolen stuff in those museums I’d been enjoying and never wondered how they got there.
I truly wonder about this. My parents went on guided tours of the Lake District and my mom and my aunts did a big tour of gardens. I went to a summer program in Cambridge as a teenager, in part because I romanticized English literature. This was back when their main cultural export was Masterpiece Theater. Now? When is the last time someone told you they were going to vacation in England. It would actually be a bit shocking.
They may not want to admit it but the whole world learning, for example, Piers Morgan’s name has been very very very bad for brand England. Jane Austen is now like the 30th thing I think of when I think of England. Meghan and the likes of Lady Colin Campbell (not to mention love island), are waaaay higher up the list. Classy, England is not.
So they invent nonsense about Meghan being disrespectful around the death of the queen when Kate was literally driving about the next day wearing pearls and broaches.
And then the smiling during a funeral walkabout? And instant upgrading of social media accounts seconds after the queens death was officially announced?
The wails were the cross upstarts for all to see.
Yeah, this.
I think the only reason why England is still obsessed with Meghan is her babies look like perfect English roses. If Harry and Meghan’s kids looked remotely brown, England would move the fuck on.
Be honest, Assholes, zero photographers would stalk the Sussexes in California. It’s so revolting.
“…Bonfire of olive branches”? What olive branches??!! Willow switches more like, to beat them with.
Charles is a petulant self-pitying old man, egged on by his monstrous enabler, Camilla. William and Kate are even worse. These are toxic people, and a toxic family environment, who serve to underscore that nonsense of a monarchy. There will be no healing of rifts, no rapprochement; they are incapable of such emotional growth and self-awareness.
Meghan and Harry are living life to the fullest; the others are mouldering.
Surely M wanted to be at Balmoral to support H. It’s not that hard to understand.
Too overwrought, Jan. You should be ashamed as a writer.
@Shawna, Jan is not a writer, just like the rest of those third rate columnists, she is a typist\wordprocesser and a rather poor one at that. They are so far beyond contempt it is only possible to ignore them. I’m with all the posters above, I will never step my foot on that pitiful little island again as long as I live. I have consigned all my books on English history to the trash heap. There’s one, however,that does have a place of honor, Spare. Thank you, Harry, for opening the worlds’s eyes.
Actually, there’s at least one more book on English history, written by American Caroline Elkins, that’s worth reading – you could check it out from the library – “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire” (c 2022). Her earlier book, “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya” received Pulitzer Prize. Per Wikipedia, “In 2009, ‘Imperial Reckoning’ served as the basis for an unprecedented legal claim filed by five Mau Mau detention camp survivors against the British government, and Elkins became the claimants’ first expert witness before being joined by other historians in late 2010 and 2011.”
…cake-filled??? Y’all, this is what it looks like when the British press has to scrape the bottom of the nonsense barrel — now they’re going to lean on “this bitch hates cake” as their raison d’hate.
Sounds like she was watching british bake off while bing drinking gin and crying about Harry.
Have to say, I love that show!
I came here to say similar. What an odd thing to write – “cake filled”?! Does England have more cake than the US or something?
I can’t figure out that reference.
I was wondering what that meant, but it looks like nobody else knows either! ‘Cake-filled’??? Not a Britishism I had a ever heard.
I had a similar reaction. How exactly is the UK cake-filled? What does this even mean? What is Moir smoking?
IDK, but it made me want cake, so now I’m even more annoyed at Moir than usual!
Yes, the whole article’s deranged, but cake-filled?? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Is this silly cow trying to imply that Meghan hates wholesome things like cakes and puppies? Or are they trying to claim that the UK somehow owns the concept of cakes??
UK establishment seems to be having some kind of collective psychotic break, and I just feel sorry for the reasonable majority who are being held hostage by hateful maniacs.
Cake-filled doesn’t make sense. I wonder if it’s a misprint from cake-fuelled implying slow and stodgy. That would certainly make sense as a reference to palace life.
OTOH it might be a misprint or last minute editing from ‘hate-filled’. The sentence is meant to reflect Meghan’s experience . Grey, hate-filled island would be accurate.
Is this not what they wanted?
So now talking earnestly about healing, humanity and hope means you aren’t allowed to walk away from abuse and set boundaries? That is gaslighting 100%.
I’m sorry. Does cake mean American cake in the UK? Our dessert names don’t seem to match up. Why is the uk cake filled?
I’m deeply confused by the “cake-filled” thing, too…
I think Emma Thompson was the first to describe it this way during the brexit mess, circa 2016?
… “a tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe, a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island,”
Love it but no clue what it means…though they do seem eat a lot of little cakes on Coronation Street.
Ah, so she plagiarized Emma Thompson, who wrote something much more interesting.
The whole she will never set foot in the grey cake-filled miserable UK again if she can possibly help it had me cracking up. Is there more cake per capita in the UK than other countries?
Judging by Great British Bake-Off and my interactions over the years with my British friends, the people on that island really, REALLY like cake. Like, SO MUCH.
That phrase makes me think of “let them eat cake” referring to Marie Antionette (though I read she never said that). The reference being that France got rid of their royal rulers and the UK is filled with cake-eating royalists. That’s probably not what she meant but all the same that’s what I think of.
@Just Me, that makes sense, but no way is Jan intelligent enough to have come up with it
That phrase makes me think of this movie scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1miYOeX44I
Meghan owns their a$$es with how much they talk about her. You know, with how irrelevant and unimportant she is to their paychecks.
Reading the BM stenographers is similar to reading Alice in Wonderland & A Clockwork Orange. Yikes.
Meghan’s actions are displaying how she feels about herself, nothing to do with those racists there is the UK. While those racists center themselves in Meghan’s life, it it pretty obvious she does not center them in hers. Allowing her husband to process his emotions safely with her is what I would call deep care for the man she loves. Seems from afar, Harry and Meghan have moved on, it is those gossipers in the UK who have not. Meghan can visit the UK when she chooses and when she does not want to visit, she does not have to. I will always support a woman who sets boundaries.
Its a case of when respect is no longer being served, you leave the table. She knows her worth, hence checking both willy and Harry the first time they disrespected her. That ‘kindly keep your fingers out of my face’ was just, damn Meg, dont play, not even with the future ‘king of England’.
@Maxine Branch says:
“Seems from afar, Harry and Meghan have moved on, it is those gossipers in the UK who have not.”
Its as if there was collective deafnessdumbnessblindness in Shidthole Cuntry when H said in the H&M Netflix Docuseries and several times during promos for his memoir: “My wife and I, we’re moving on.” Also: “My wife and I, we’re looking forward to whats next.”
Bravo Ms. Branch……
Spot on.
Imagine being Meghan Markle:
Growing up a california beach girl who gets a great education and works her ass off to become a succesful actress. Traveling the world enjoying your friends and family and living to the fullest. Then finding your prince, falling in love, getting married only to find that you quite literally found the best one in the rotten barrel?
She is the BEST thing that has ever happened to that trash country and their hatred for them is disgusting and disgraceful. Trash.
Well said!
I get so sad whenever I think about it this way. Especially since I watched Suits since it first premiered, so I already knew who she was pre-Harry— and then to see what those people did to her? And continue to subject her to on a daily basis?
There are really no words adequate enough to describe the monstrousness of the people who have heaped this amount of abuse onto her.
These wretched “columnists” and royal rota rats are reaping what they scattered courtesy of RF briefings that alienated Meg and Harry. They sowed discord on behalf of RF and are now counting the cost because they are now up the creek. No new photographs and exciting gossip instead they have the Dullards to promote and those lazy asses aren’t doing enough to generate clicks. They can’t due to the super injunction write about big Willy’s wandering and KM’s machinations. To quote Vivian in Pretty Woman, “Big Mistake”!
Is she joking, when stating that Meghan could somehow help heal the familial rift? The BRF have made it clear they want nothing to do with her.
Charles said “She’s not family”. So he is getting exactly what he wants. Miserable SOB.
🗣️🗣️🗣️ YES!! This is exactly what they do! Please keep breaking iit down!!
These extortionists passing for journalists are mad Meghan is not begging for their acceptance. An African American Princess of the UK has told the BM to kick rocks. Kate may be willing to debase herself for a tiara and status, but not Meghan.
“Extortionists passing for journalists” is PERFECT. Well done!!
“we’re looking at a burnt-out bombsite where a family used to be.”
Note the continued violent imagery– burnt out bomb site.
“clemency is in the deep freeze.”
Clemency for what? THEY DID NOTHING WRONG!!
“The outstretched hand has been withdrawn”
The same hand snatching everything it can back from the Sussexes, like their home in Windsor?
“and the peace pipe”
Stop right there with that racist s**t
“has been doused with a thousand duchessy tears.”
Get bent, a**hole.
Liking your comment ad infinite, especially that last one.
As to that “outstretched hand,” I swear it had knuckles in it.
yeah, brass knuckles….
@Rapunzel, that was awesome. Thank you. The get bent was wonderful but my favorite is the peace pipe. Stop that racist s**t was absolute perfection. Thanks again.
Now that they can’t drone on about “truth bombs” every day, they needed to find some new violent imagery to associate with H&M. It’s criminal.
Somehow the king should in no way be held responsible for a reconciliation. This is so tiresome. Harry has been abundantly clear about what is required to begin healing this family. They just ignore that and put it all on Harry. I hope Harry is now over and done with them. And why would Meghan ever want to return to the toxic isle? Charles TOLD Harry she is not welcome and not part of Charles’ family. Yet, it’s up to H&M to heal the rift.
Right? He’s the PARENT in this situation. Charles is so freaking spineless and weak, always trying to blame and shift responsibility to everyone else. From a pen not working to his decimated relationship with his son, he never seems to think it’s up to *him* to deal with anything. Pathetic little man.
Have you read Charles authorized biography? Pathetic is the best word to describe him.
It’s all filled with whining about how he blames himself–for not forseeing that a naive young thing like Diana was too mental ill not to withstand his self-centered attitude and near constant abuse and he should held out for a more grounded woman that would have realized that she was a means to an end, and allowed a comfortable sort of love to mature between them after she did her duty in providing him with heirs.
I read it to try to get some understanding of him, but it only made me loath him even more.
Diana was a teenager when Charles first courted her and later proposed and he was 32. Charles wanted heirs and wanted to maintain his lifestyle of doing what he wanted and prioritizing Camilla. Charles ditched Diana after he got the two heirs.
Every reason for why Meghan isn’t leaving her 2 toddlers early to travel with her husband to attend a one-day event in the UK listed except the most reasonable reason which is that she doesn’t want to leave her 2 toddlers early to travel with her husband to attend a one-day event in the UK. Preschool starts early September, it was already confirmed she would go later to the Invictus Games, add to the fact that she only stayed for the beginning of the games last year. I also find it weird that “fans” are driving the narrative that she’s avoiding the UK when the whole purpose of Harry’s security case is so that him and his family (wife and children) can travel to the UK and still have armed security. Harry said himself he wants his children to get to know his home country. I wouldn’t imagine spending all that money on a security case against the government just to avoid the UK all together. H&M were in the UK last year for both of their charity events, this year Meghan doesn’t have one so it’s perfectly reasonable that she would rather spend that time with her children before leaving to join her husband mid games.
Those first two paragraphs! Ooooh, the drama, the turns of phrases. I actually pictures it all in my head! Really went for the soap opera there, didnt she? Hilarious these people. Anyho, too bad, so sad. Meg ISNT coming. They can try their hand at so-called hypocrisy but it takes two to tango. Her shady comments suggest clearly that she thinks Meg and Harry should come back and continue to be disrespected and abused. They set boundaries and Harry made clear what is necessary to fix the relationship. Blame your weakling (never said a bad thing, never did a wise thing either) king for it being unresolved.
And this…
“Meanwhile, King Charles’s first act as king was to ban Meghan from Balmoral, telling Harry that the king’s daughter-in-law and mother of his grandchildren is not “family.” Then Charles briefed the Mail so that everyone would know that he was punishing his Black daughter-in-law for the crime of wanting to hold her husband’s hand as he mourned his beloved grandmother.”
Does not get any less enraging no matter how long past it is. This man is utter trash. BTW, walking Meg down the aisle was not about her but about good PR for him.
I mean, I agree with everything Kaiser has said here. The press can cry as much as they want, Meghan is not going to put herself in the position to be demeaned and smeared by the Royal Family and their press anymore, and I’m here for it. It seems that the press still hasn’t realised that when Meghan refused to accept the invitation to the coronation that she was setting boundaries for herself. I have a lot of respect for her for doing this.
Finally an admission from the Daily Mail that the Royal family had treated Meghan badly.
Jan Moir wrote, “Perhaps being forbidden to attend the Queen’s deathbed at Balmoral — was the last straw. And if there is a role for her as wifely appeaser to help heal the rift between her husband and his family, she has chosen to avoid that, too. As is her right.
The late Queen would not have turned Meghan away.
Actually the late queen turned her grandson away on the advice of her courtiers – recall him saying she canceled a meeting they set up after fleeing to Canada? So she definitely would also have turned Meghan away.
If he/she wants to use the word “forbidden” for Meghan, then Kate was also “forbidden” from being there too.
Debbie, I have no idea if KHate was ‘forbidden’ or she didn’t want to go. The difference between the two is that Harry stated in Spare that KFC told him she couldn’t come. Harry responded with something like, “don’t ever speak about my wife that way again.” So, not knowing exactly what KFC said, I believe the rr’s came up with the ‘she’s not family’ piece. I would like to know what KFC really said.
The rrs said that KHate was not there because it was the kids first day of school and she needed to be there.
Kate was definitely forbidden to go, but it came from William. And her not going is why Meghan was not welcome to attend because it would have shown how William and Kate are not a functioning couple anymore.
William is the one who needs to apologize so does Charles and Kate and camilla.
Keep starving, rota rats!
Yes please @MinorityReport! Keep starving rats! If I was Meghan I wouldn’t want to go back there either. But what has happened to “The Queen’s English”? That bastian of well spoken and well written English? This piece of claptrap should never have made it’s way past an editor. “Cake filled”? What does she even mean by that? Is it the insult du jour or the scribbling of a woman trying hard to make her piece have the required number of words to pass the bot that has replaced the editor at DM. And one last opinion from me… the more I read lines from anyone in the rota that Charles wanted Meghan kept away? The more I think that it was about keeping Kate with her tendency to scene steal away and Meghan was collateral damage even though she just wanted to support her husband. The rats are pushing on this one a bit much, it’s like they think if it’s in print enough then people will believe it. Minus points to you Charles for allowing Meghan to be used like this just to keep Katie Keen away.
The point of this article was the nasty, vitriolic cruelty towards Meghan. “Perhaps being forbidden to attend the Queen’s deathbed at Balmoral — to shed light, to empower, to recommend a turmeric cleanse and some yoga stretches to the woman she never knew as Gan-Gan — was the last straw.” Just remember that Camzilla hired Torbyn Andreae from the DF as the royal comms person. She and CRex have close ties to the DF and their publishing and article like this is fine with KC and QCC.
RR’s are outraged that they can’t write thousands of articles about how Meghan is thirsty for royal trappings and how she was snubbed by the Windsors.
Actually, this way, it looks like she snubbed them.
“. . . to the woman she never knew as Gan-Gan . . .”
Excuse me? Even the Queen’s children had to refer to her as Your Majesty. Do they think Kate was allowed to cal the Queen “Gan-Gan?” I doubt ANYONE was allowed to call her “Gan-Gan.”
Kate and Meghan called her Ma’am.
I remember in “The King’s Speech” that the Queen Mum told someone to call her Your Majesty the first time, and then Ma’am (rhymes with ham not mom), after that.
But never Gan-Gan.
Apparently the Queen’s small great-grandchildren did, but Jan just threw that in there as some sort of extra insult to Meghan, even though it makes no sense whatsoever. The entire article is nonsensical.
The rota can choke on their cake over on that island. Harry’s doing a fly by visit and it’s highly doubtful you’ll ever see Meghan or their children there for a long time.
I love the acknowledgement that Harry and Meghan are clearly the better people therefore they should take charge of healing the rift because the petty, useless Windsors won’t. And how on earth are trashy tabloids supposed to eat out here without any material to work with??
Lol, CRY HARDER.
“grey, cake-filled, miserable” — that actually captures how I imagine the vibes of the palaces are.
But the notion that Meghan would act in any way inappropriately at Balmoral after the queen died is disgusting. Meghan is the epitome of dignity, warmth and compassion. She could write an instruction manual for the royals about how to behave.
“But there is a puzzling disconnect about all this bitter friction.” TYPO she added an ‘r’ to fiction.
The Duke and Duchess [keep embracing big themes such as reconciliation and family. [I thought the Cambridges are usually referred to as PandP of Wails] They talk earnestly of healing, humanity and hope but, somehow, never apply these messages to themselves and their relationships with their families, which are as toxic as a giant hogweed swamp.
EXCEPT for the typo and lack of clarity, it’s okay.
Meghan snubs the royal rota, RF. Yaayyy!!!
Meghan is paying those people DUST and they are so mad about it lmaoooo.
Is cake code for something? We have all the delicious cakes that Meghan could ever want right here in the US. So weird.
I keep reading it as filled with ‘grey cake’ … 🤣 🤣 🤣
@elsa, in addition to cake she has lemons to make that cake on a lemon tree in her back yard. So a lemon tree in addition to 30 bathrooms. At her 14 million dollar mansion. She won’t be going slumming to the U.K. anytime soon.
“Gray, cake-filled, miserable UK….”
I don’t recall Meghan ever complaining about the weather (or the cake) in England. She lived in Toronto for years. It doesn’t have a warm sunny climate either. And the UK was “miserable” only to the extent the RR and the family were deliberately making her miserable.
Moir came up with this description based on personal experience, I think.
I’m from Toronto and the climate there IS warm/hot and sunny during the summer. It has distinct seasons, it’s not the tropics, but to equate it to the English climate is wrong. England’s weather can be miserable, I’ve lived there and got mightily sick of the rain.
Oh, I know Toronto has seasons! I only meant that the writer seems to be implying Meghan can only handle SoCal weather. British people don’t get that California is a huge state with different climates and it’s not always a beach day. Meghan also lived in a place that does get cold and dark (probably colder than England), and she seemed to like that just fine too.
I spent a summer in England when I was in college and it was gray and rainy a lot. I would never want to live there. I don’t mind cold but I need some sun or I get SAD.
Jan M was accurate . It IS a ‘grey cake filled island’ but I’d add insular, xenophobic, and believing everything written in their ‘free press’.
Cake-filled…..clearly whoever wrote this is Jonesing for some cake.
Hilarious! You can see how deeply bothered the British media is that Meghan has put the UK squarely in her rear view mirror. They cannot fathom why a “commoner”, a biracial American wouldn’t be scraping and clawing to get back into the royal spotlight on Salty Isle. According to them, she should be begging to come back into the royal fold and show gratitude and relief that – although she is beneath them – they “allowed” her some grace.
GTFOH
Racism and white supremacy be damned. Meghan is better than the whole lot of that pale, stale Klan. And she will probably never return to the place where they tried to destroy her.
History won’t be kind to the Windsors.
This Moir person is particularily nasty in this article. This article right here is exactly why Harry and Meghan are done with the revolting British media and the nasty RF that emboldens them. Everything they write about this couple is nothing but cruel jabs. They trivialize the abuse that they continue to inflict on Harry and Meghan and then turn around and feign shock that H&M are sticking to the healthy boundaries that they have set. May the British media continue to starve and suffer. Nasty bullies, the whole lot of them.
These people are crazy if they think Meghan would subject herself again to the Windsors and their brand of family togetherness ever again. They were cold, heartless, smug, ostracizing and torturous to Meghan during those 2 weeks. F*ck KC3, Peggy, Kate and Cam! They are lucky she is a positive person because I’d burn them to the ground and grind my heels in their ashes.
They are extra crazy (bunch of weirdos) if they think she would subject her children to them. These people wouldn’t come anywhere near my children.
The UK doesn’t seem as enchanted with the RF as they were ..Diana brought in a much needed change, and the Queen was a sort of icon that gave them comfort simply because she had been around so long . Meghan came in at the perfect time to align them with their own multicultural identity and the Commonwealth nations , and they were stupid enough to reject the only people who could have kept the royals relevant . What’s left behind is a bunch of losers who are probably going to leave as gibbering wrecks in straightjackets , the sooner the better . It’s downhill from now .. The UK will survive but the monarchy cannot . Jan moir can shut her ” cake hole “. I love very British witticisms
News Flash!: Meghan refuses to swim in shark-infested waters!
Extra! Extra!: Meghan refuses to help tame a pack of rabid wolves!
The British “media” exposes themselves with every overwrought piece of fiction they publish. They just look overly dramatic and stupid as all get out.
Rejection and self respect seems to be hard for these Royal bitter ugly Bettie’s to handle .like go f yourself jan .
Dare I say “Let them eat cake….then “off with their heads”. So scared to vent when the end is neigh but when the crow sings it signals the end….Yet how long lives the King?
I love some of the Twitter comments this morning on this. Some commenters saying Meghan is treating the UK as a flyover country. So they have to “insert” themselves to make themselves relevant. 😀
Just shows how Meghan is pretty influential more than they can admit it .
The power this woman has to bring the royalist derangers to their knees. It’s really laughable at this point to see them frothing at their mouths while she goes about her own business as a private citizen of the United States.
LMFAOOOOO at M treating the UK as flyover country!!
Plague Island, surrounded by a sea of turds.
Good on Meghan for kicking the whole place into the long grass, and not taking any more of their abuse.
Again, this is opposite land, they are projecting William and Kate’s issues onto Harry and Meghan. Not invited to be at Elizabeth’s deathbed, the woman who never liked you? That’s Kate. Claiming to care about healing (insert “mental health”) but never applying that to yourself? That’s William.
Interesting that they’ve decided Meghan will never be back. I think Meghan can do whatever she wants to do. There are family and friends that I think H&M will want to see, and they can do that. The problems the brf and rr have is that they want them to want the royal events and access to the royal family, so that they can be treated like doormats the royals wipe their feet on.
I know they’ll never let up, but I have to say that this is starting to get a bit amusing. They are now having to stretch to write these articles. Do they have any idea how this makes them look?
Agree. Clearly, it made sense for Harry and Meghan that she join later. We don’t know why but the logistics are a lot. It doesn’t mean she is never going to the UK or even really avoiding it. If she is, I can see why. But it’s more likely the fact that the uk is not a priority for her at the moment. If she chooses to visit at some point, she will.
If I were her, I wouldn’t either. On her and Harry’s behalf, I will never step foot in England again. They’ve both had enough of English “hospitality” to last them several lifetimes.
American tourists should #Boycott Britain.”. @cara. As an American, I too will do my part. I will never set foot on that cesspool, filthy, gutter stench land.
I think many Americans have started to notice and has skipped the Uk all together on their travel plans. Many Americans also don’t care what they think of us but at the same time , they’re at the point they don’t care about visiting that country also(I’m seeing more and more of that in YouTube comments also) . Having been to other European countries, there’s always the American stereotype, but the UK takes it to the next level .
The obsession they have with a woman they claim they can’t stand is mind-boggling. It almost reads like ” you can’t fire me because I quit!”
This racist googly eyed piece of shit is mad because a biracial woman who has more standing and influence than her refused to be abused because she knows her worth. She’s mad because unlike her 💩, Meghan knows that her worth is better than any “family” or institution that is okay with racists and sexists attacking a woman of color and her children. These people aren’t family. At the time when Harry lost his mother, Charles left a child alone to suffer alone. He left him alone when his grandfather passed away, even leaving his recently widowed mother alone on her birthday immediately after. He refused his son an opportunity to at last have someone there with him during his time of grief during his grandmother’s passing. He has said not one single word against any of the racists articles, comments or threats against Harry, Meghan, Archie or Lili. Men have gone to jail for threats against his son and his family, yet not one word of concern or condemnation. His son and his DIL, along with Doria, were in a car chase in NY, yet he didn’t call or show any signs of concern for any of them. These people don’t know what family is or how they should behave or treat each other. Meghan has nothing to apologize for. A loving father would thank a mother for refusing to allow herself, her husband and her children to surrounded by such an environment, but Charles and the rest of the royals aren’t loving or family. They are racist trash that don’t even deserve the be in the presence of Harry, Meghan or their children.
Bravo !!! You’ve said everything that I’ve been feeling but couldn’t put into words. They are a trashy and cruel institution. They don’t resemble a family in any way.
Cake filled??
Clearly Moir has never been inside a Costco
The Sussex’s will be on the world stage for about 7 days? for Invictus Games, leaving the rest of 365 days of the year for the Look-At-Me(s) and what do we have here but an onslaught of meaningless articles from the British Media??
The only thing of terrible importance within this article – are the following questions – asked and answered;
who does it seek to appease? and Why?
The answer will reveal what are the issues of transference………….
They want her to show up so they can freeze her out again, on camera, This is not how you treat family. Perfectly ordinary people know that.
Still wondering what is meant by “grey cake-filled miserable UK.” Miserable UK I get. What the dickens is this cake reference all about, though? This is the most awful piece of writing I’ve seen in a long time. It’s not even purple prose. The writer is so full of rage, venom and hatred that her words are just vomited out, regardless of the sense of metaphor, image, or coherence. It is just putrid.
I wonder if she is implying that Meghan doesn’t eat cake because it’s fattening and not particularly good for you? Meghan is a California girl who makes roast chicken for dinner, grows veggies, likes avocados (horror!), etc. She’s also very slender, not in a worrisome way like Kate but in the way of someone who is naturally fine-boned, does yoga and eats healthily.
I feel like she was making fun of Meghan’s healthy habits, but it fell short because the cake reference was just confusing and really, who wouldn’t want to look like her?! She wears clothes beautifully and her skin glows.
The Sussex family will do what is mentally safe for them-talking like a shitstain everyday will not get Meghan’s attention-Harry and Meghan have more important things to do in their life and it does not include being mistreated by the shitstain media of the UK and any shitstain royal involved with that media.
Family dinner at Windsor???? Aren’t they all up at Balmoral?
Thus, we know w/o question this is drivel. Bonkers.
Publicity stating that Khate M is the power behind the throne makes her responsible for all this hate. As she is the major influence of so many of the decisions of the BRF, this nasty gossip writer is probably on Khates speed dial along with all the other vile writers. The jealous hate driving K is dangerous. Nothing rational going on here, QEII did not appear to like Khate or her social climbing mother. Constantly rewriting and sanitizing K’s history to appease her ego, is an insult to the british people. Criticising Meghan for not going to the UK is very strange, her safety cannot be guaranteed. The constant lies, the attacks which all seem to be BRF driven are ugly and threatening. Meghan and Harry are very similar to Diana, not perfect, but their behavior and their attitude towards people has always been kind, decent and they try to make a positive difference to peoples lives. Also wondering where are the stories of the “bankrupt” Middletons holidaying in the Caribbean.
Carole is the one imo with the powerful Kate spin. Kate is dependent on Williams whims. If he wants someone else William would want a divorce. Also I doubt kate is popular with Charles and Camilla. Kate’s behavior to Meghan was atrocious. She did cause a lot of the damage.
The wails are surely not perfect but praised to the skies by some in the media.
What private family dinner
The media said Charles would not have any special event and would spend the day in quiet reflection.
I have never heard of this Moir woman but she is clearly unhinged .
There should be a special section in a mental home for all these ugly,evil,jealous white female journos .
Absolutely disgraceful the whole damn lot of them .
Methinks her well runneth dry…
The media gave Kate an apparent free pass for her loathsome behavior to Meghan on that walkabout .
This is an op-ed article, so Ms. Moir is entitled to her opinion…..
Meghan would probably return as a private citizen, after all her son was born there…
Being entitled to an opinion doesn’t make it free from criticism. Words have consequences, especially when she is trying to rile up hate with her bullshit articles. If Moir is gonna write shite like this, she better brace for the shit storm that comes her way soon after.
Dear Ms Moir
Don’t worry about Meghan, they have cake in Germany.
She and harry are married and both.are still part of the royal family. They are not working royal family members. Unfortunately though j a n has an opinion she is very biased against Meghan.
M o i r is very negative about Meghan and distorts the facts about Meghan imo
Archie is their son and Lily their daughter had her birthday in the UK. Meghan and harry are both still members of the royal family along with their children.
I seem to recall a news corp article before the coronation which quoted she of the wiglets stating that if Meghan attended she would have to sit at the back. So yes, I’d totally want to spend time in the UK with my husband’s family if I were her.