The Duchess of Sussex gave people a lot to consume this week. The new season of With Love, Meghan came out on Tuesday, as did a new As Ever product drop. A new interview with Meghan also came out on Tuesday: a great piece with Bloomberg’s The Circuit with Emily Chang. Meghan came across really well (imo) and she seemed pretty loose as she chatted and joked around. At one point, Chang asked Meghan about relatability, and Meghan’s answer has caused a lot of fury in the British press. I can’t help it, I’m laughing my ass off at everyone over there freaking out because Meghan basically rolled her eyes at royal pantyhose protocols! From The Sun:
Meghan Markle has made yet another dig at the Royal Family as she claimed she “couldn’t be as vocal” when in the UK. The Duchess of Sussex, 44, opened up about how her life felt “inauthentic…several years ago” in an interview with Bloomberg Originals.
The mum-of-two, who lives in a £12million Montecito mansion and spends her evenings learning French on Duo Lingo, was asked if it’s hard to appear “relatable”.
She replied: “No, I’m just being myself. I think it was probably different several years ago where I couldn’t be as vocal and I had to wear nude pantyhose all the time. Let’s be honest, that’s not very myself, I hadn’t seen pantyhose since movies in the eighties when they came in that little egg. That felt a little bit inauthentic, but that’s a silly example, but it is an example of when you’re able to dress the way you wanna dress and you’re able to say the things that are true and you’re able to show up in the space really organically that’s being comfortable in your own skin.”
The Sun’s Matt Wilkinson referred to this as a “veiled dig.” It’s the pantyhose story which brought down the British empire! Meghan’s pantyhose is a slap in the face to the dead queen! Queen Elizabeth told all of her friends how furious she was about Meghan’s pantyhose!! Would you like to see someone else freak out about the pantyhose story? Behold, Tom Sykes’ Royalist Substack, where he threw a full-on tantrum about Meghan DARING to mention the royal pantyhose protocol!
Meghan Markle promoted the second season of her Netflix lifestyle series today by accusing the British royal family of making her wear “nude pantyhose” in yet another retread of her signature theme of portraying palace life as an unbearable system of micro-aggression and control.
Instead of taking a prime sofa on Today or GMA, which she could book with a text message, she chose Bloomberg Originals’ The Circuit. The interview dropped this morning on Bloomberg’s YouTube lineup and, at last check, had drawn 14,000 views—a respectable tally for a business-news franchise but hardly the roar of mainstream morning television. The Circuit, to be fair, is no minnow. Emmy-nominated, running across Bloomberg’s many platforms, and with the company touting 62 million monthly video viewers in 2024, it carries weight in financial circles. But it is still not network TV. That feels deliberate. Meghan long ago stopped doing the obvious media rounds, preferring niche settings where the conversation can be guided gently around anything inconvenient.
So here she was with Emily Chang, whose opening order of an oatmeal chai latte set the tone for what followed: a string of friendly prompts that allowed Meghan to sketch, once again, her favored self-portrait—conscious founder, authentic businesswoman, victim of stifling royal dress codes. Chang’s best question—whether there’s a tension between being relatable and being a duchess—produced the line that has gone viral: “No, I don’t find— I’m just being myself. So I think, probably, it was different several years ago where I couldn’t be as vocal… I had to wear nude pantyhose all the time… That felt a little bit inauthentic.”
I can’t be alone in finding Meghan’s habit of painting the British royal family as an oppressive straitjacket deeply hypocritical, when every ounce of her fame, wealth, and celebrity springs from her membership of it. Without “Duchess of Sussex” stitched into her bio, there would be no Netflix deal, no glossy rosé launch, and certainly no Bloomberg chair. The very institution she dismisses as repressive is the foundation of her brand!
This hosiery detail is a retread of her biggest selling product to date: grievance.
It would be incredibly refreshing if, just once, Meghan could simply acknowledge the obvious. She was not well known before she married Prince Harry, and that marriage made her world-famous. She could also do herself a favor and clarify afresh that Queen Elizabeth, whatever Meghan’s personal disagreements with the institution she ran, embodied duty and service in a way that commanded global respect.
Meghan does not have to endorse everything the monarchy did to concede that the late Queen was an extraordinary example of showing up in the world and doing good work. Instead, she continues to present herself as if the family spent all its energy controlling her passport, her wardrobe, and now her underwear. The claims feel unconvincing and aimed at reheating the grievance cycle that keeps her in the headlines.
It would be incredibly refreshing if, just once, these royalists would acknowledge that they’re going to throw screeching tantrums about every single little thing Meghan says, does, sells, wears and cooks. She was, at the time, a Californian in her 30s who was not used to wearing pantyhose, but she did it because there was a whole-ass royal pantyhose protocol about it. Now, years later, she can use the pantyhose protocol as an example of how asinine and controlling those people are. “Instead, she continues to present herself as if the family spent all its energy controlling her passport, her wardrobe, and now her underwear.” The family actually DID spend a lot of energy controlling her, smearing her, defaming her, and abusing her. Don’t just shrug off the fact that those f–kers TOOK HER PASSPORT. Don’t shrug off the fact that they refused to allow her to access mental health counseling. Don’t shrug off the fact that to this very day, Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace still brief royal reporters on the Sussexes’ activities, even when those activities have nothing to do with the left-behinds.
Also: all of the bitching about Meghan not going on network TV is bizarre? She was literally on the Drew Barrymore Show this spring. If Meghan went on the Today Show, Sykes (and all of the royal reporters) would have thrown hissy fits about that too.
Screengrabs courtesy of Bloomberg’s The Circuit.
Didn’t keen not wear pantyhose. And Meghan was famous before she married in.
Thinking about that time where keen and peg went to some sort of airbase (keen was wearing a yellow dress) and the wind became strong and keens dress flared up. Considering we saw her ass we can conform she didn’t wear pantyhose all the time.
It was in Alberta during their first tour in Canada. She also flashed during a memorial in India.
So no we’re not going to have fits about Meghan’s anodyne pantyhose comment when Kate literally showed her ass on tour.
@NIC919 she flashed a lot more times than that.
See also the red coatdress thing where I’m still scared for baby George as she was holding him & trying to put the dress down but she was going down steep plane stairs in heels & William did fuck all.
At one point it was during every royal tour and you’d think she’d not wear flinsy dresses to windy places, use weighted hems, wear slips or even underwear but nope.
Then again she was known as an exhibitionist at school for constantly flashing her bum
It was at the Calgary airport when they came to the Stampede. We went to the parade and Kate and William’s car sped past, we got a one second glimpse of the sausage curl and when they were at the airport on the tarmac her dress flew up and we saw the royal buns.
Keen regularly went sans hose (like she went sans other things). Keen also wore dark nail polish when ‘working’.
Or the what was it red nailpolish seen on her toes when wearing sandals & a flowery dress for a visit to a concentration camp
And she wore bright pink to the 9/11 Memorial, after having worn either navy or black the day before when meeting with young children. She’s a joke.
Waity didn’t bother with any underwear let alone pantyhose… at least our California princess was able to live her pre royal years not wearing pantyhose without flashing her private bits for the public to see.
Kate has definitely stopped her past habit of wearing hose to every event, since the Queen died.
Yes they seem to ALWAYS conveniently forget that Meghan Markle was a brand long before she met Harry. With Love Meghan and As Ever are just extensions of her Tig Lifestyle Blog. Not to mention that she was on an Internationally Syndicated TV Series and all of the Charity work she did. They keep trying to down play her accomplishments prior to Harry.
As Queen Meghan says they have bills to pay….bless their heart!
She’s so graceful about it. Where knows there’s a financial industry behind her bashing.
This. Imagine being so outraged over a woman sharing her experience with pantyhose. Gotta pay those bills somehow I guess.
“She could also do herself a favor and clarify afresh that Queen Elizabeth, whatever Meghan’s personal disagreements with the institution she ran, embodied duty and service in a way that commanded global respect.” FFS, they’re going to try and polish that unintelligent, incurious, dead old racist turd until history rewrites itself. She was on the throne during the Kenya uprising, so though I’m an atheist, for people like her, I hope there’s a heaven and hell, and she’s down there looking up at Diana. Respect my ass!
The queen was deficient in getting lazy William to work. Did she ask peggs to clarify his lack of work and reasons for it.
Thank you!
She embodied duty and service because the royal family and the british press insisted that she did. And because frankly, by the end, she was old. people are reluctant to criticize a woman older than most grandmothers.
but the reality is that she used service as a cover for her immense privilege, she was a weak mother, she was controlled by courtiers her entire reign, etc.
Um yeah no. If Meghan said a word about the late Queen it would get twisted and they’d still be having a tantrum. How dare she mention the queen while promoting her show. Yeah right, Sykes. That would do her no favors.
Exactly. In this same piece Sykes accuses Meghan of riding on royal family coattails. If she had mentioned the late Queen, he would have used it to bash her for mentioning the late Queen. Wicked Catch 22.
Except that Meghan has said that before? She’s remained extremely kind and respectful of QE.
Sorry but pantyhose isn’t an important aspect of the monarchy. Meghan isn’t offending anybody except maybe the people who insisted on it and I doubt a 90 something year old cared that much about it.
The thing about him wanting Meghan to say something positive about the Queen is that the only people who have made it clear in the media that the Queen wasn’t someone worth admiring, has been the royal family and their media goons. Harry and Meghan have only said positive things about the Queen. They were the only ones who didn’t make a mockery of the Queen’s funeral and mourning period. They were the ones continuing to have a close and respectful relationship with her. They didn’t put of hate in her mouth before or after her death.
I mean, she is right, it is stupid to put that much control on people. I worked in a big corporate company with the same rule if you wear skirt or dress. But, I had to follow that rule during work hours in the company. When you are royal, you are royal 24/7 and I am sure Meghan tried to follow the rules whenever she was outside. Also, she got abused anyway with made-up protocols. When the journalists try to manipulate the public discourse about how Meghan isn’t authentic, she gave an excellent answer on the royal life not being authentic.
That’s why they’re really angry. Meghan gave a answer that showed she’s free and now and highlighted she was most unrelatable and inauthentic “a few years ago”. They hate the reminder that the Sussexes left and never regretted it or looked back.
I also find it ironic that the same rota who’ve always said life as a royal is like living in a golden cage are now offended because Meghan mentioned royal life was restrictive. But as Meghan said they have bills to pay and bless their heart if they want to make money to the detriment of others. That’s between them and their God.
It’s the medias attempt to make her seem inauthentic because she lives in a huge million dollar home that she pays for while the defend a family that has multiple million dollar homes and castles that they have never paid anything for. Then to be angry that she didn’t praise the Queen during an interview about herself and her business, when the royal family has ridiculous protocols like you have to wear pantyhose, pink nail polish and never close your car door. None of those things are going to make a difference in the lives of the taxpayers who fund the royal family or the lives of the people in the commonwealth.
I remember reading that the pantyhose thing was even weirder. It wasn’t just that the ladies have to wear the same color pantyhose. They were specially made by some old company or something. Imagine having some old coot presenting you with “the Royal pantyhose”? LOL!
Someone tell Tom Sykes that pantyhose are not underwear. You could tell that Meghan didn’t have much experience with pantyhose because the nude pantyhose was totally the wrong color for her.
Or maybe the royally approved pantyhose sources needed more experience with Meghan —to get the supposedly “Nude” color right. I’m old enough to have worn pantyhose and other products in the shades then marketed as “Nude” — which in no way reflected the very wide array of actually “nude” skin tones. I’m kinda bitter, but at least with some brands things have gotten more colorful. Even bandaids now have wider ranges of shades available.
I grew up through all the modern variations of hosiery. First it was the thigh high stocking with garter belts. So uncomfortable. Then came tights for girls and women. Next pantyhose. As a Black woman they didn’t make nudes color for us. The shades they did have made your legs look ashy. By the time the made them in some darker shades women started wearing pants or slacks as they were called. I wore pantyhose at work through the 90s. The only good thing about newer model pantyhose was the control top. Thank goodness it went out of fashion. I do still wear tights on all colors.
Rita Wilson wrote a humorous article about having to wear pantyhose to a royal event and meeting Prince Philip.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2010341/Gowns-skirts-Belle-Beauty-Beast-came-mind-Rita-Wilson-strict-Royal-dress-code-Buckingham-Palace-banquet.html
So pantyhose will bring down the monarchy lol. If only. I liked the part where she talked about the last time she had pantyhose was when they came in a little egg lol. Ah Leggs those were the days. She gave them just enough to write hate articles for weeks!
I’m really curious about the pantyhose rule. Were they like, actually checking to make sure she was wearing them before she left the house? How did/does this work?
Given how hard she works to do what’s right/expected I imagine she had numerous briefings from racist courtiers who listed all the many rules she had to follow and then more briefings when she did something they hadn’t mentioned but decided she did wrong.
She named her child after the queen. Isn’t that an acknowledgement of respect? Like, the ultimate acknowledgement???
Who knew that one of the fundamental, foundational elements of the thousand years old British monarchy is … L’eggs!
May they announce all future royal appearances not with God Save the King but with:
🎶. Our L’eggs fit your legs
They hug you; they hold you!
They never let you go-oooo! 🎶
With BM’s and BRF’s, that does seem to be the case – the Sussexes have been out for years and those dopes just can’t quit them, can’t let them go. Even as those two institutions collapse and tumble towards the abyss.
I think Meghan should lean into it — and make parasites like Tom Sykes really happy with those “veiled digs”. Like many, I have some suggestions for her next drops: When Life Gives You Lemons lemon curd, lemon marmalade, lemon shrub, and, of course lemonade mix. Orange You Glad I’m In California Now bitters — for those special cocktails! Sour Grapes spread. Maybe style a backyard picnic with Royal Farms chicken. Add pantyhose to her ShopMy page! So helpful for those of us who struggle to find just the right shades.
Good idea. I’d sell silk tights with vamp designs in black and red. That should make their heads explode. Bustier and corset too. Meghan should do a collab with Victoria’s Secret.
I really wish they would stop trying to memory hole the fact that Meghan was a successful actress and a successful entrepreneur before she met Harry. Maybe she wasn’t the most famous actress in the world and she wasn’t running Louis Vuitton but she had a comfortable level of success.
Pretending that literally the only reason that someone that had a food blog already, had already had endorsement deals with department stores, and already knew a lot of the people that she’s still friends with now in these spaces only has it because she’s married to Harry is infuriating.
Also, she’s not a politician who has to put herself out there to her constituents to answer for decisions that she makes on their behalf. If she doesn’t want to give interviews at all she doesn’t have to, she’s a private citizen who’s running the business. It’s smart business to do interviews and to promote your product, but she’s not hiding away because she can pick and choose who she wants to do interviews with. Most celebrities do that. It all boils down to control with them. They are so angry they don’t get to control her like they thought they would.
Yes to all your points and they also assume she wanted to be world famous. Did she?
The main message seems to be we gave you fame so suck it up and take the abuse.
Re: “we gave you fame.” No. You tried, and are still trying, to smear her with infamy.
If she was so unsuccessful before she met Harry, why were the Keens gob-smacked when they found out Harry was dating her? Why did she have to furnish Nott Cott with her credit card. Hell, Harry’s standard of living increased exponentially when he started seeing Meghan. Remember, Chucky made it clear he couldn’t afford to pay for Meghan.
She was famous enough that William knew who she was.
The BM are still getting their knickers/pantyhose in a twist.
The BM invented royal protocols especially for Meghan, from nail-polish to shoulder free dresses, just to criticize her for breaking them. This is normally called coercive control.
The late Queen wore lots of shoulderless evening dresses when she was young.
I mean they have protocols for nail polishing and pantyhose.
I work in corporate, I recognise toxic micromanaging when I see it.
I am glad she is FREE.
They longer the rota and left overs push this outrage over everything Meghan does or says the worse (and unhinged) the entire Monarchy looks.. is their entire focus just that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are doing in California because it certainly seems like it especially since WanK no longer seem to be interested in being “working royals” whatsoever so as far as I can see the only thing they show up for is the outrage over the Sussex’s. They cost the subjects of England a lot of money for this manufactured outrage, truthfully it highlights just how little WanK actually do and just how unaccomplished they are.
They really have an obsession with tights. At least psycho Tom is on par with Lazy.
Anybody remember the kerfuffle with Khate over the bridesmaids wearing tights? Hmmm.
They’re policing her legs 😂
I don’t see Sykes’ problem here. That Meghan wore pantyhose while with the RF, even though it “wasn’t her,” was a sign of respect for Elizabeth’s preferences. Once Meghan left, she could go back to her own preferences.
What bizarre things to be a whiny little b**** about. Meghan didn’t mention the late Queen’s sense of duty, in the same piece where he’s moaning about how Meghan supposedly rides on her royal connections? Why drag Elizabeth’s dead body into this at all, unless you want to make a point about the Lazies, which is absolutely how that would have been read. Also, Sykes is unhappy that Meghan went on Bloomberg originals instead of the Today Show, which might not have been her choice, despite what Sykes claims about her only needing to send a text?
Does anybody actually subscribe to Sykes’ substack, and know if he’s getting pushbacks in his comments section? I refuse to subscribe to this garbage.
I’m happy for Kaiser to digest it all for us. Psycho Sykes doesn’t need my clicks.
My theory is that he was too mean to the Wales in his last substack about FL and so now he has to pay the “get outraged over Meghan tax” so he can stay on the good side of William’s friend. Having a tantrum over pantyhose works as well as anything I guess.
Perhaps Sykes and the other media hacks are upset that M didn’t go on a network television breakfast programme because it deprived them of the ability to use clips freely to get clicks for their articles? With these people, it’s always about the money. As she said, they’ve got bills to pay. Come to think of it, even Prince Harry has used a similar line in the past: didn’t he mention that the Levin woman had probably paid her mortgage dining out on her brief encounter with him? Bless these vipers.
The thing is, I remember this being a “thing”! it was another way that Kate was used to attack Meghan. kate, as the perfect royal married in, always wore pantyhose (well except for notable occasions.) she understood that was part of the role and protocol and blah blah blah. meghan, the vulgar american, couldn’t understand that!!!!!
it was always BS because Kate doesn’t always wear hose, and she certainly wears them even less now.
but to act like there was never any discussion of pantyhose wearing from the british media 5-7 years ago is absurd.
Let’s be honest, we’ve seen a lot more of Kate than we have Meghan.
For all the accusations of Meghan doing nude scenes as an actress, which is patently false, Kate has actually exposed herself far more. And Kate’s done it on official tours. Multiple times.
Very much enjoyed the interview with Emily Chang. Meghan was relatable, authentic, focused, and her usual intelligent self. Chang asked good questions, Meghan answered. Meghan does not acknowledge her brief time in that family with cause. They were obsessed when she was there and are obsessed with her now. Any net work would love to interview her but she is focused on growing her business and not Harry’s birth family. They are so desperate for some of her shine until they look for any reason to reconnect her to that family which she has clearly moved on from. Meghan had carved a whole life for herself prior to her marriage and cultivated good friendships and connections to those in power in the United States. Her passport was booked and busy for many years. Their obsession will remain because she got away alive and is happy, heathy and thriving with her husband and children. The life she is living and the happiness they both show with each other and as a family is a daily remainder of what is missing from Harry’s family, love and light. They could not tolerate having a mixed race woman tainting that family and now they are unsatisfied with what they have left and she reminds them of what they are missing.
Once again they willfully misunderstand her. When she was forced to wear pantyhose because of some royal protocol, it was inauthentic to who she was but no-one questioned her authenticity then as they rejoiced in seeing her being restrained by protocol. In her era of joy, as she presents herself in WLM dressed the way she wants in designer outfits consciously chosen by her, all of a sudden her authenticity is questioned. I think Meghan was pointing out this double standard with the pantyhose comment.
I find willfully misunderstanding is a colonialist tool. By being native English speakers, white supremacists use language to put you in a position to explain yourself over and over again by simply pretending not to understand. They do it to people from their former colonies, they do it to other British citizens with different ethnic backgrounds, they do it to anyone who dares to speak English with an accent, and they even do it to Americans.
Oh that’s a really good summation. The whole discussion around authenticity has gotten so asinine. Meghan’s like I’m a real person while the BM cry no you’re a faker while telling us the Wales are just like us. It’s a trip.
Brilliantly said — and on point @Gemini!
Omg, this is really hilarious. It’s not enough that Elizabeth was Queen for 75 years, anointed by God, acknowledged by the whole world, a billionaire encrusted in jewels and mourned by millions. No sir, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s legacy won’t be complete until Meghan “clarifies” that Elizabeth commanded respect.
Eurydice, the interesting thing with that is how does one command respect? Sure, people could PRETEND to respect her, but how could she command they feel it? I don’t react well when people tell me how I’m supposed to feel and think.
I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at the outrage. She basically called all them out saying she is paying their bills and it’s the pantyhose that has them mad?
Tom Sykes is …not well. He literally lost what was left of his mind over someone remarking that wearing pantyhose isn’t an authentic personal preference for them. I mean, what if she said she didn’t like milk in her tea? Or preferred an anorak with a hood to an umbrella?
Didn’t he have drug issues like TPB?
It’s funny that his sister is Plum Sykes who’s a favourite of Anna Wintour. Whereas Psycho Tom Sykes is a schizophrenic bootlicker of the Lazies.
Then again, maybe Plum gave him advice over tights.
(for those of you who may not know she is called Plum because her first name is Victoria – Victoria Plum after the pudding; it’s an aristo thing)
Interesting – I’d believe it about the drugs. I didn’t know Plum Sykes is his sister or that she’s named for a pudding! ha! 😂🤣 TS is clearly a professional evil flying monkey for W & K – the idea of becoming unhinged over Meghan not personally preferring to wear pantyhose is right up there with physically attacking Harry and knocking him down into the dog bowl. No rage control whatsoever.
From a PR perspective, Tom Sykes is showing his nepo baby roots here, because he knows bugger all about channels of communication. He whines “Bigger always better so if she’s on what appears to be a niche social media means she’s a failure!!” Meanwhile, Meredith “Texas Hold ‘Em” Maines continues to wipe the floor with British hacks, coolly choosing the channels that matter, from Women’s Wear Daily (hint to Tom : not niche, tyvm) to podcasts that matter to those that matter…Just because Meghan isn’t on the BBC doesn’t mean she’s playing catch – up. On the contrary, these American women are schooling you. Put the crack pipe down, listen and learn, it’s a masterclass. It’ll do you good
Plus network TV is going the way of the dinosaurs 🦕 at least in the US. People are ditching cable and satellite just like the landline phone so podcasts and streaming are the norm. People like Tom Sucks seem to forget that Meghan Sussex is repped by one of the biggest agencies in the world and she’s top tier. It’s not like she’s calling around begging to be a guest on some TV show, it’s the other way around.
the podcasts are also giving her more time to speak – she’s not being jammed into a 7 minute segment between commercials – and allow her to have some control over the venue and the vibe. the longer format of most of these podcast interviews is a good fit for her.
And I think its also just her being reciprocal – she knows she has to do some podcasts if she’s going to ask people on hers (if she does another one).
Is this how the British want people to see them?…lol
Do they understand that those of us who don’t live there read these stories and go…they are such a miserable bunch of people.
Maybe he should ask the experts how well-known Meghan was prior to meeting Harry – Will and Kate, who regularly watched Suits and were stunned when Harry showed up with Rachel.
A little confused about his point of her not being on regular network tv. Is he saying she avoided that because she needs to be careful handling inconvenient questions – since she can’t call the media and have objectionable content changed or removed, like the RF can in the UK?
Chances are Meghan would still have been very successful had her life gone another way and she continued to develop the Tig. (BTW, she was already wealthy). It’s true her “brand” got a boost from her DOS title. But the major factor launching her into the stratosphere was the constant, unrelenting daily coverage by the BM (even if mostly negative). That’s given her free publicity you couldn’t pay for if you wanted to. Bad news for Sykes and co. she’s smart, talented, personable and hardworking, and therefore succeeded outside the firm, when other RF members couldn’t.
I’ll believe her success is all about the title when Clare Smyth and Jose Andres (who Will bragged about some months back) show up in Will and Kate’s kitchen for a cooking segment.
this is to @Gemini, there’s a famous sketch comedy show “Little Britain” in which Matt Williams plays a middle aged white lady English teacher to a class of adult immigrants whose only response to anything that any of her (non-white) students say is, “What’s that, my love?” in the most fulsome, indulgent tone. It’s glorious. To the mounting fury of her students. She simply will not understand them. Check it out. This continuing tantrum over a woman who has become the acme of California lifestyle serenity has attained comic dimensions. FWIW it reminds me of when children throw tantrums over the notion of their teachers having lives outside of school, like, they don’t live there???? Under the desks?? ….or over the notion of their parents having sex lives that necessarily don’t involve them. Like, the world must revolve around ME, ME, ME!!!!! It’s funny that they accused Meghan of being self-absorbed. Like, the assumption being, you belong to US!!!! When deconstructing their palpitating rage, it helps to unwind where their assumptions are rooted.
Thanks @ParkRunMum, I will check it out.
I think Meghan’s answer was brilliant. The pantyhose is a small example of the things that Meghan had to do that weren’t true to her. The same media that screams that Meghan is inauthethic now was upset that she wanted to remain true to herself and maintain her old friends after she joined the family. Being to give up her charity work, business and career made her inautentic.
I can’t wait for the time when “the Pantyhose that brought down a Monarchy” becomes a thing
The jam started it & the pantyhose will finish it off. 😜
As ever, I enjoyed Meghan’s chat with Emily and am actually listening to other episodes of Emily’s podcast.
I also had to wear nude pantyhose (hated that word, called them “nylons” instead) growing up in an extremely conservative church of British origins populated by octogenarians who grew up in the 1940s.
Just one example of so many ways the BRF is stuck in the past, because there’s no real place for them in the future.
Can’t blame Meghan for poking fun at the easily affronted and outraged royalists with her response about inauthentic royal pantyhose protocol and that she missed most of all the UK radio stations.
The Brits have my admiration for their love of music and being very knowledgable re: music appreciation, Uncut and Mojo are 2 wonderful publications, and now I will have to look for British stations on global radio sites – (another way Meghan is steering people to what’s good!),
Recently there were a few articles attacking what Meghan wore when she was doing royal work and how she constantly broke protocol. Now they’re mad because she hates wearing pantyhose and was flippant about it. In their docuseries, Meghan discussed how she tried so hard not to embarrass them, dress appropriately, and it still it wasn’t good enough, Tom Sykes royalsplaining pantyhose can take a long walk off a short pier. Maybe he can wear them and get back to us on that. I enjoyed the interview.
@L4Frimaire – – omg, that is so funny, I’m dying. Maybe that’s EXACTLY why Tom Sykes lost his sh*t, ha ha. He didn’t get to wear pantyhose for the queen and it was his secret fantasy??? 🤣🤣🤣
Sykes sounds like a colonial irritated to the bones that the colonized aren’t sufficiently grateful for being oppressed and exploited.
I always wondered why they couldn’t at least provide tights that matched her skin tone. Unless she was maliciously complying, which i respect.
Unfortunately, pantyhose for women of color has always been a dreadful experience. The tone never quite matches no matter the tone or sheen. I hated being forced by my grandmother to wear them to church so I started wearing dark dresses and skirts so that I could at least wear black pantyhose to avoid the distract of there not being any that matched my skin tone enough. I remember how relieved I was when it was no longer something that other ladies at church would wear. I despise them so much that I wouldn’t know where to find them if I needed them now and I’d try everything to avoid them if I could.
“which she could book with a text message”
Hmmmm … for someone desperate, unsuccessful, try-hard, that’s an interesting take; I didn’t know failures could appear on nationwide programs/worldwide platforms so easily.
Go figure.
I can’t believe we have returned to this insanity again.
It’s just a FACT that Meghan was rich and famous before she married Harry (who was so well know in America that about a dozen women could be tricked into a competition to win his heart on TV done with a lookalike /s). Her show Suits was extremely successful, she already did a lifestyle blog and she already did humanitarian work. She was more famous than most members of the Royal family as well who, if we are being honest, prove day in and day out that having a title is not a passport to fame and riches.
As I like to post, I once saw a story on the DM about one of Camilla’s engagements that clearly was only written because former Love Island contestant Zara McDermott was *also* there, and then one about one of Charles’ engagements which was only written up because UK The Hills-like The Only Way is Essex castmember Gemma Collins was present too and mentioned something about trying for a baby.
This is absolutely typical of the way in which, to manufacture *their* grievances against the Duchess, the UK press torture a neutral reality into a chain of causation where Harry and Meghan have done something bad. The bottom of the barrel are their frequent claims that Harry is a hypocrite, effectively, for having been born to and Charles and Diana, something he should have tried to avoid apparently, if he were to have no issues stemming from the former’s behaviour and position, or the latter’s fame and tragic life story.
Bianca Censori West is a bigger celebrity than most of the Royal Family as well- that’s the way the world works? More people know who she is than the Duke of Gloucester and I’d actually go as far to say more people would buy a product if she endorsed it or attend an event because she was attending it than him. Same goes for Kanye’s ex Amber Rose, I dont like her, but was she supposed to use a neuralizer to make everyone forget she dated West so she didn’t benefit from a long ago association with someone who arguably mistreated her who she now dislikes? The same would apply to Meghan, even if she hadn’t been pretty famous already before she married Harry (as others have said, William and Kate knew who she was before Harry did!). Would anyone dare say to, for example, Katie Piper (a celebrity in the UK due to the inspiring way she dealt with having had acid thrown in her face) “you owe your fame to your attacker – show some gratitude instead of talking bad about him all the time.”
My final point for the likes of Sykes to accept, if not the others, you guys also owe your livelihoods to milking to your meagre connections to Meghan so that makes you all hypocrites doesn’t it, for complaining about her all the time!
I knew as soon as Meghan dropped the comment about the pantyhose that salt island would explode. Wink wink to Meghan She knows exactly what will cause their tiaras to twirl. I’m smiling and I’m sure she is too!
I love it.
Press: “We would never accept her because no matter how hard she tried, we just knew she wasn’t totally comfortable following all the silly, outdated protocol rules.”
Meghan, years later: “I wasn’t totally comfortable following all the protocol rules.”
Press: “OUTRAGE! How dare she say she wasn’t totally comfortable following all the protocol rules!!!”
No way I’m going out in Scotland in the
winter without tights. Even under my trousers. They are thick and black though.
That’s not the same as panty hose. Yours serves a real purpose. They might as well have told her to wear a corset because it was just picking on everything she wore just for the sake of denigrating her. I visited Maine in winter and wore so many layers because it was so cold. I’ll wear Spanx but will avoid stockings/tights/pantyhose if I can.
Did they at least make an effort to match the shade of nude to Meghan’s skin? I’m doubtful.
Meghan nearly lost her life trying to fit in to the mold they required her to be in. I’m glad she can look back on that period with any lightheartedness at all.
And Tom Sykes can go f*ck himself.
Too bad tomtom the royal sycophant missed the part that applied to him: “There’s a very, very powerful machine and it’s all about generating an income … It’s not me that they’re talking about, it’s some caricature they’ve had to create to get clicks. And I’m very clear on the difference between the two.”
Yes, it’s true that being married to Harry has brought Meghan more fame. OTOH, she now also has a fair amount of haters. That number is so large that she needs extra security for herself and her family.
I had no idea what the nylons bit was about reading Sykes but it sure got him in an anti Meghan lather.
Almost the same lather these new highly intrusive pop ads are creating.
I’ve deleted the same ad 9 times!
I push back or try to.
Some of his commenters can be a bit strident.
They never want to say that they disdain and disapprove of Meghan because of her Black heritage. So they make shit up. They should show their entire ass and just speak their true minds.
Her mentioning the same protocols the media told us about while she was in the UK isn’t a veiled dig and if a protocol about wearing pantyhose was so important to the Queen, surely Kate not wearing them and exposing all of her lady parts would be a much bigger concern for panties in a twist Wilkerson. Meghan answered a question about finally being her authentic self by being able to dress and speak how she chooses to without protocol restraints. Also why would Meghan need to do a prime time interview when she did one a few months ago to promote the show and the one she did three years ago that the UK media can’t shut up about? It seems like he is just one of those people that Meghan mentioned who wants to make money off of her name because no one knew who he was before Meghan. Unlike him, Meghan was known on her own right prior to Harry and was already a millionaire without any association to the royal family.
What? “[A]s if the family spent all its energy controlling her passport, her wardrobe, and now her underwear.”
Keep up, Tom. The family did all of those things.
Love how she just doesn’t give a rat’s anymore .
She knows they will criticize whatever she says , so she may as well say something to really get them worked up .
I haven’t worn pantihose for years either 😀
I’m old enough to remember when the same Rats screeching about pantyhose today made a meal out of telling us that kate was a victim because she wanted Meghan’s little bridesmaids to wear tights/hose and Meghan refused. To hear them tell it, those tights were going to save the monarchy!