Over the weekend, the photos of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex attending Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party went viral in a big way. You could see, in real time, as the deranged community tested out talking points. Harry and Meghan were “bad” no matter what, obviously, but why were they bad in this particular instance? Something about “how dare they go to a party on the night before Remembrance Sunday.” An abundance of angst about the Sussexes hobnobbing with Kardashians, A-listers and billionaires. A general unhappiness that Harry and Meghan were outside, when they should have their schedules overseen by the palace! Finally, there seemed to be a consensus talking point: Meghan is wrong – “bad” even – for NOT wearing a poppy for Remembrance. There was a sudden uptick on “the missing poppy” on social media and the British tabloids. First off, poppy-wearing isn’t really a thing here in America. And as many have pointed out, when Meghan wore a poppy in a November video last year, she was criticized for that too. It’s almost as if they’re just mad that Meghan exists, and the reasons why are just fill-in-the-blank. In any case, the Daily Mail had a hilarious exclusive about why Meghan didn’t wear a poppy.
Meghan Markle did not wear a poppy to Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party because they are not widely available in America, sources close to the Duchess have told the Daily Mail.
Meghan attended the glitzy James Bond-themed party at Jeff Bezos’s $165million mansion on Remembrance weekend with the commemorative symbol noticeably missing from her glamorous outfit.
Harry, meanwhile, had one pinned to his tuxedo, which he obtained after donating to the appeal during his recent visit to Canada, where he met with some of the country’s oldest veterans.
Sources have told the Daily Mail Meghan was unable to visibly honour the war dead as poppies are not widely available in the States, unlike in Commonwealth countries.
The mother-of-two, 44, has previously been pictured wearing a poppy during Remembrance alongside her veteran husband Harry, who served two Army tours in Afghanistan. Last year, the Sussexes both wore poppies fastened to their lapels as they published a joint video about online violence against children. While in 2023 the Duchess wore a poppy brooch as she and Harry visited United States Navy SEALs in San Diego.
People across the globe can purchase a poppy from the Royal British Legion’s website, but would have to pay £28 for postage to get it sent to Montecito.
While it’s true that most American stores don’t have poppies on demand, it’s easy enough to just order one or a dozen online. Amazon literally had hundreds of options, and poppy pins are also for sale on eBay and Etsy. Apparently the American Legion sells them too. My point? Availability wasn’t the issue. Meghan just chose not to wear a poppy, probably because she understands at this point that she’s damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t. Imagine the headlines if she had worn a poppy to Kris Jenner’s birthday party – they would be raging about “how dare she wear a poppy to such a superficial event!” Anyway, at least I get to repost the party photos again! They looked great!
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In 2024 she wore a Poppy and the Brit Media was outraged, asking “WHY IS SHE WEARING A POPPY? SHES NOT BRITISH!!!” This year Meghan didnt wear a Poppy and they say “WHY ISNT MEGHAN WEARING A POPPY! SHES SO DISRESPECTFUL!”
They are absolutely UNHINGED!
This is why H&M don’t engage with or read the tabs. They are writing for old guard working class Brits who never liked Harry mixing races to begin with. Complete dinosaurs and not worth the time. They make this stuff up to feed the asalt Island money Train.
This is why H&M don’t engage with or read the tabs. They are writing for old guard working class Brits who never liked Harry mixing races to begin with. Complete dinosaurs and not worth the time. They make this stuff up to feed the salt Island money Train.
+ a million. This right here. She can’t win.
This isn’t just a Meghan thing. Every celebrity in British public life gets policed for whether they wear a poppy or not, and if they dare to wear any of the official colours other than red, they get policed for that too (e.g. Jeremy Corbyn wearing a white one because he’s a pacifist). It’s horrible.
Yes it is a Meghan thing because she was attacked for both wearing AND not wearing a poppy. She can’t do both so how is that realistic? Only the biracial Duchess is held to these ridiculous standards.
Still have to wonder what on earth this woman ever did to merit such unending nitpicking, criticism, and vitriol. Oh, right, she’s biracial. Got it.
She is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t. It’s a no win situation with the BM. Nit picking is what they will do and they won’t stop.
I have to admit that I no longer see veterans handing out poppies at stores anymore. I always gave as my father, grandfather, great and many greats back have served in all of our country’s wars. So, poppies are not easily available anymore.
Yes, here in Ontario, Canada: as a child, I would drop a quarter into the metal container and the smiling vet would carefully pin the poppy on my coat. But they’re old now, and can’t stand there for hours in the cold. So sometimes cadets would stand there in their stead.
But for the Remembrance Day service today, all those vets will be marching in the parade, even if some of them can only do the last few metres to the cenotaph. And they will all be in step.
Nowadays, local stores have the poppies sitting beside the cash registers. I understand too, that in our increasingly cashless society, it’s more difficult for the Royal Canadian Legion’s poppy sales as fewer people carry cash.
Is it just me or does a tuxedo look unfinished without a cummerbund? Most guys don’t wear them and imho, they should.
Indeed it does look unfinished as @derekguy has explained many times on Twitter.
Love his commentary!
He needs an undershirt, too. Fewer and fewer men wear them these days, but with a thin shirt like that, you need one if you want to look really polished.
Or a waistcoat.
James Bond (the theme of the party) didn’t always wear a cummerbund with his tuxedoes 🙂 . But in any case, I suspect that the real reason Harry did not go all out was because he had been at the Baby2Baby charity gala and simply changed his jacket (this one is velvet) and necktie to a bow tie, instead of going for a whole new outfit. He seems to be wearing the same trousers and shirt from the gala. Meghan kept it even simpler: she didn’t change anything at all (possibly slightly darker eye makeup, but that’s it).
“Sources close to the Duchess” the first untruth in this story.
I know it’s a parasocial thing on my part, but damn, I am so happy that Harry met Meghan and escaped the scapegoat of his family role. I am so happy that he is no longer there to be a target for his brother’s rage, laziness, anger, and lies. I love seeing these pictures of a happy and healthy and FREE Harry.
As for the poppy thing, she is damned if she does (last year) or if she doesn’t (this year) so I hope she just continues to live her life in the way she wants. Wearing whatever she does or doesn’t want to, posting whatever she wants, attending whatever parties she wants to. The British media and derangers will always be foaming at the mouth about something. Shrug.
I couldn’t agree more.. it’s time to stop nitpicking the Sussex’s lives and holding them to standards higher than is expected from others. There were a lot of people on KJ guests list and I was disgusted that the ones being treated like villains for attending were the Sussex’s..
Quite frankly, I’m tired of hearing this. It’s not holding them to higher standards, it’s holding two of my absolute favorite celebrities/people to the SAME standards as I hold everyone else to…even though it hurts.
This along with “oh it must be trolls” comment repeatedly to long time, regular posters here is ridiculous. I’ve been reading this site daily for 17 years. I’m not a troll. I’m a truly disappointed fan. Two things can be true. The British media is unhinged regarding the Sussexes AND some people who really like them think this was a misstep. Edit: think attending the Jenner party is the misstep, not the poppy. That’s nonsense.
Fair enough about holding people to YOUR standard. But there were comments that were OTT obvious.
I commented in support of their attendance of both events, but then my standard is far lower than many angry ones on that post. No doubt that makes me a lesser human in their eyes. I can’t be angry when people support their friends — especially when these friends stood by them during the bad times— by attending a B-Day party along with many others. Am I going to stop listening to Beyoncé’s music ? Nope. Crap on my nephew for working at Amazon? Nope That nephew survived so many layoffs, worked his butt thru accounting school while holding multi jobs and now he and his wife just had a baby. He could be working for other companies owned by venture firms or billionaires or the local multi-millionaire— no doubt benefiting by same tax loopholes. Is that better?
My hospital was bought out (like so many) and is now run by money grabbing venture capitalists. So yeah, my reputation is no doubt stained by that association. Obviously if I had higher standard, I’d quit my job and be jobless which at my age and this economy would be dang tough. No healthcare. No rent money. As to the patients, who’ll serve them?
Real life is hard and for many of us in the trenches, we actually get the hustle most folks (including even seemingly rich people like H&M) have to juggle. So I’m ok living my life knowing I can’t live up to other’s standard .
@Tuesday, if you claim Meghan and Harry are two of your “favorite” celebrities, then you know they are wealthy. They move in a certain social circle that 99% of the world doesn’t. It shouldn’t be a surprise that they attend events like Kris Jenner’s birthday party as they and Doria have gone to other events where Kris has been. Unless you believe the tabloid media line that the Sussexes have been “shunned”. Are you “disappointed” that they went to the Baby2Baby gala or that Harry went to the gala in Toronto too?
I’ve seen lots of accounts calling it Remembrance Weekend. That’s not a thing. There is Remembrance Day which is today (Armistice Day) and Remembrance Sunday, the Sunday closest to Remembrance Day. The 8th on November when Harry and Meghan went to the party is just a normal day. Just because the royals went to a remembrance concert doesn’t make it an official day in the calendar. So many British people were out at fireworks displays celebrating Bonfire Night this past weekend so how is wrong for Harry and Meghan to be out and about?
Even “Remembrance Sunday” isn’t a thing outside Britain, is it?
I am loving looking at how happy Prince Harry is in photos at parties with his wife.
Last week he was in Canada going good works with veterans/military, which seems incredibly important to him- so, duty done, soul filled with good work.
And now he is hanging with glamorous people at fabulous parties.
Yep, Harry is definitely incredibly miserable, and can you believe his wife didn’t wear a poppy?
Obviously, they are on the edge of divorce.
I swear if the murdoch press thought they could get away with it, they would put Kate/Will’s heads on video of Harry and the Duchess, and vice versa, and talk about how in love Kate and Will obviously are, and how Harry/Meg are obviously on the verge of divorce and totally miserable.
And if people were presented with that- misidentifying the couples as intended- all the murdoch gossip would actually make sense.
We have millions of poppies available in Canada these days. And Harry was in Toronto last week. Have Meghan wanted to wear a poppy, she would have wear it.
I’m Canadian and I have my poppy pinned to my overcoat. I would not have it pinned to a dress that I’m wearing to a birthday party lol.
It’s nice to see one pinned to Harry’s jacket, but ridiculous to expect Meghan to wear one pinned to her dress and it wasn’t an event to honour veterans and she is no longer a working Royal, so there should be no expectation regarding her wearing a poppy.
Yeah, there’s no way that any source for the Fail has ever had access to Meghan because no one that knows her and likes her would ever give them the time of day. The outrage about a poppy on a dress for a birthday party was always insane to me because it would look weird to have it pinned on a dress in America where poppies aren’t really a thing most people would recognize or associate with, especially at a birthday party. Harry was wearing a coat, was just in Canada where it’s commonplace and is a veteran so it made more sense for him to have one on his lapel. I could understand if Meghan was wearing a coat, but definitely not on a dress. Besides no one is obligated to wear a poppy. It doesn’t say anything about a person. William and Kate wear them and they are constantly absent from real memorials and ceremonies that are to honor those who’ve served. The entire royal family wears them and with exception of once, they never give verbal support to the UK or commonwealth veterans of IG. So wearing a poppy or not wearing one says nothing about your support or respect for those who serve or have served.
Yeah, and Meghan not wearing a Poppy is somehow more egregious than Willard skipping out on the day remembrance altogether.
Who are these sources close to Meghan that are talking to the DM. I’m going to guess that the source is a member of the royal rota. Anyway, I think the reason Meghan didn’t wear a poppy is because she chose not to. She wasn’t seen wearing one in the photos that came out last week either. Maybe she knows that the British criticized her for wearing one last year and she decided not to wear one this year. She’s not obligated to wear a poppy anyway.
WanK are the sources close to.. they tend to make it obvious with their jealousy.
It truly was something to watch derangers try and pick a struggle. And I’m sorry, Meghan not wearing a poppy should not be offensive to anyone. With Harry, she has supported so many veterans through IG. Seeing it as a misstep is a choice and one that has more do with the person making that choice than anything else.
It always confuses me that they get so mad about the poppy thing. The poem was written by a Canadian. The UK claims it due to colonialism. It’s never been a huge thing in the US. Harry wears it bc he served. There’s no obligation for her to wear one.
We had a remembrance supper on Saturday at the RC Legion. all the veterans with their uniforms and medals, everyone wearing a poppy.
It’s definitely a bigger thing here in Canada where you see them everywhere in November. most of the grocery stores have a volunteer from the Legion selling them.
this was never a thing in the US (I’m a dual citizen and spent most of my career there) WE had an interesting discussion about how differently each country regards its veterans. we came to the conclusion that higher veteran visibility in the US is mostly because the US has been in so many more wars.
The US also has two holidays for veterans, one for the dead and one for the living. I think because Canada and the UK don’t have that, many don’t understand Veterans’ Day isn’t the solemn occasion Rememberance Day is.
Yes. Memorial Day is definitely more to honor the veterans who have died. Wreath laying, visiting veteran cemeteries, etc.
M, yes, Memorial Day is when poppies were abundant. You can still get poppies at VFWs or go online to get poppies from the VFW. They’ve never stopped having poppies.
Memorial Day started as honoring those who served and died, and later became a day for people to visit their family and friends graves.
I don’t know why the British seem to think they invented the idea of the poppy (poem aside). Look at the history–it was an American woman and then a French woman joined in to have poppies on Memorial Day.
Ducking out of lurking as a fellow dual citizen to confirm. Poppies haven’t been regular things I have seen here since the 1980s (I have only seen someone doing the poppy volunteer selling once here this century, and of course I bought one as I was taught to as a child). (I wouldn’t get them off Amazon or anywhere commercial, as that runs contrary to the point of fundraising with them.)
The UK media will always find a way to make whatever choice the Sussexes make the wrong one. It’s so tiresome.
For me, wearing a poppy is showing respect to veterans and those who served & died for our freedom. I’m disappointed on the lack of poppy wearing here in Canada. The poppies are widely available. I won’t decorate for Christmas either until after November 11th. Lest we forget.
Meghan Sussex Accused Again as British Media Flip on Poppy Coverage – Feminegra https://feminegra.com/meghan-sussex-accused-again-as-british-media-flip-on-poppy-coverage/
This is a sharp and accurate observation of the continuous bias used by BM and the Fail, especially against Meghan.
I remember as a child there was an organization that used to collect money for veterans, it was either VFW or American Legion at traffic intersections and you would get a poppy for a donation. My mom would always donate and they would give me a poppy too if I was with her. But that’s been over 50 years ago and I can’t remember last time I’ve seen anyone collecting for veterans. The Society of Bitter Hags that is always hounding Meghan is in overdrive about this poppy thing. I’m glad people are calling out their bullshit over this, considering this same gang attacked her in 2023 and 2024 for wearing a simple poppy. So dishonorable to the people who actually served to behave that way.
Meghan’s support of Harry’s work with Invictus is far more meaningful than wearing a poppy. She is an enthusiastic supporter of IG.
The left-behinds could drape themselves in poppies, but their fake medals show contempt for real military heroes.
A resounding applause for everything you said 👏👏👏👏👏. Honoring those who have served or are serving now, goes beyond an object you can pin on clothing or a flag you hang outside your home. Those who have fought for our freedoms deserve more than a trinket to show honor and respect towards them. Harry and Meghan have shown that through their actions throughout the years, just as so many others have done the same regardless of what object is on their chest. Give me a person who shows honor and respect through their actions over someone who sees an inanimate object as the defining symbol of honor and respect for those how risk their lives or have lost their lives on our behalf.
The British media should focus more on why their future scooter King won’t attend remembrance events and not why am American they told to get gone is not wearing a poppy in the country they told her to go back to. Like be for real
Feminegra did an excellent article about this very topic. The media and trolls themselves have chastised her for wearing a poppy every time she has stepped out with one on since leaving the UK, so Feminegra showed how even the same tabloids have attacked her for both wearing one and not wearing one. The Fail is just proving that it never has anything to do with what Meghan does but about what she is, which is a biracial woman. It’s even more upsetting to them that she’s an intelligent and beautiful biracial woman who knows her worth.
It’s true that poppies aren’t widely available in the US, isn’t it? I don’t tend to see them at florist shops, stands, the grocery stores that sell flowers, etc. And it’s not really a thing here. I know the poem but to be honest I didn’t know about Remembrance Day until I started following Harry and Meghan. We have Veterans Day and that means flying flags.
Not to say we can’t grow them. I had a wildflower seed mix and poppies came up in my garden for a few years. They just aren’t popular as cut flowers sold on market.
Poppies are plentiful in California just not for purchase, the freeways and roadsides are lined with them. It’s the state flower, BUT it’s a golden poppy, not a red poppy. I can just imagine the uproar if Meghan wore a golden poppy.
Right, the ones in my seed mix were California Poppies.
MaisiesMom, go online and search VFW and poppies. You can get all you want.
In Canada poppies are widely available and sold by donation. Don’t see veterans out selling them anymore, though.. Retail outlets have boxes of poppies by their cash desks and people can pick up a poppy and make a donation. When I was a kid, people generally donated a quarter. Now you see loonies, and toonies, and bills )inflation, you know). They used to be handed out in high schools. They are generally worn on coats. I think fewer people are wearing them these days because the generation that actually remembers is slowly dying out. However, Remembrance Day is always formally observed, and it’s still a statutory holiday and at all services poppies abound.
After today’s Remembrance Day service, Mr Lissen was talking to a friend about the service. “O Canada” was sung by a nice children’s choir to open the service. At the end, they played “God Save the King”. Except Mr Lissen kept referring to it as “God Save the Queen” and his friend never even noticed. I had a private smile of amusement. It still hasn’t dawned on either of them that there’s been a change! Clearly they both thought of it as merely a song that gets played on official occasions and its title was and forever will be “God Save the Queen”. LOL
Poor KCIII. NOT!
A storm in a teacup. As early as 2018 it was questioned why Meghan only had one poppy on her coat during Remembrance Day. Now the Daily Express are running a POLL wih the question “Should Meghan Markle apologise for not wearing a poppy?” Not everyone in the UK wears a poppy, should they apologise? Harry was with Meghan and would have been fully aware that his wife was not wearing a poppy and was obviously ok with that, the choice was theirs not the UK tabloids.
She may just be thinking about her broader impact here. California’s state flower is the poppy and it is illegal to pick them. Maybe she’s just trying to discourage people from picking the state’s symbol and a protected wildflower?