Mail: Duchess Meghan is ‘callous & vulgar’ for posting photos from Althorp

Obviously, we’re still talking about The Instagram Carousel That Brought a Nation To Its Knees. Last Thursday, the Duchess of Sussex posted photos from her family’s summer holiday. Nothing has been the same since, at least in royal media. Royalists are furious that Meghan’s photos are so happy and joyful. Royalists are furious that the Sussexes own a second home in Portugal. Royalists are furious that Prince Harry is clearly very close to the Spencer family, and that the Sussexes stayed at Althorp for several days without paparazzi getting any photos. And obviously, royalists are furious that Meghan posted a photo of her husband and children walking together and carrying flowers at Althorp. That’s all the photo shows – there’s no photo of the private island where Princess Diana is buried. There’s no photo of Diana’s gravestone. There’s no explicit message about Diana – just a photo of Diana’s son and ginger grandbabies carrying flowers and walking on the Spencer family’s ancestral estate. Well, the Daily Mail’s Maureen Callahan is furious on behalf of King Charles and Prince William! From “Meghan’s vulgar act at Diana’s sacred resting place vindicates Prince William’s suspicions. King Charles must now come to grips with it all.”

Just when you think Meghan can’t go any lower, she outdoes herself. If there’s one place above all that Harry and the British royal family would consider sacred, you’d think it would be Princess Diana’s burial site, located on an island at her ancestral home of Althorp. But what did Meghan choose to post on Thursday? A photo of Harry and their son, Archie, carrying huge floral bouquets as daughter Lili trailed behind, the sun dappling just so — art-directed, it seems — that appears to have been taken on the grounds outside the house on Althorp Estate, albeit not on the island itself.

The implication is hardly subtle: Was Harry taking the children to visit Diana’s grave? Meghan hasn’t denied it. Neither has Harry. People magazine, the American outlet said to be preferred by Meghan and one that has historically been kind to her, reports that the Sussexes stayed at Althorp during their visit to the UK two weeks ago, as guests of Diana’s brother Charles Spencer.

So much for not being able to safely return to the UK without royal protection. So much for not being able to set foot in Harry’s homeland without swarms of paparazzi putting Harry’s wife’s life in danger, as he has so often claimed.

Why would Meghan do this? Perhaps Meghan’s decision to post this picture of Harry and the children at Althorp, seemingly on their way to Diana’s grave, is an act of defiance. After all, it was widely reported that the immovable conditions of Harry, Meghan and the children meeting with King Charles were no leaks and no photos. If one considers that admonition literally, then Meghan has abided. If one also considers the spirit of this requirement, as I do here, then Meghan has breached it.

Consider that Prince William has visited Diana’s grave, surely with Catherine, Princess of Wales and their children. Have we ever, ever, seen a photo of them at Althorp? Of course not. William and Catherine are decent, serious people who understand that some things are sacred. Diana was buried on that island, at her family’s private residence, precisely to keep her gravesite from becoming a circus, a tourist attraction, a commodity.

For Meghan to share this, in my opinion, is beyond callous. It’s vulgar. It’s as obscene as that video she took in Paris, seemingly filmed from the back of a chauffeured car near the tunnel where Diana died — Meghan’s feet up on the backseat, crossing them as if in bored repose. She posted that to Instagram too, and William was said to be fuming. What must his reaction be now? Diana was his mother too, but the way Harry carries on, you would think he was the only brother to suffer her loss.

What must King Charles be thinking? He allowed his traitorous son — one whose claims of royal family squabbling have been injected back into the news cycle by none other than Oprah Winfrey — back into his life with, reportedly, one request: Do not break my trust. This act, which has sparked revulsion online and among good people everywhere, seems to be further proof that William is right: Harry and Meghan cannot be trusted.

[From The Daily Mail]

It’s true that King Charles “ordered” (or shall we say, requested) that Harry and Meghan not post any photos of their meeting at Highgrove. Meghan adhered to that request. Incidentally, I think that’s why these people are so mad, because Meghan didn’t also post some nice photo from Highgrove which they could scream about. Instead, it very much looks like Meghan went out of her way to snub the Windsors, or as Meghan says, “my husband’s family.” And why would Charles care about photos from Althorp? He does care, but not in the way Callahan believes. Charles is mad about the Althorp photos because they show that the Spencers are more welcoming than the Windsors. As for the Althorp photos… again, it’s a pic from the larger Althorp estate, where tourists are welcome. It’s not offensive or vulgar or some kind of etiquette breach. Speaking of vulgar, remember when Prince William’s office posted cards to “Granny Diana,” allegedly made by his children? That was something.

Photos courtesy of Meghan’s Instagram and As Ever’s Instagram.

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104 Responses to “Mail: Duchess Meghan is ‘callous & vulgar’ for posting photos from Althorp”

  1. windyriver says:

    That Meghan – there’s just no end to her clever connivance (/s). She even got the sun to dapple just so! That’s where I stopped reading. GMAFB.

    • Eurydice says:

      Clearly, Meghan is a supernatural creature who captured Harry with her evil spells.

    • Debbie says:

      You must admit that Meghan getting the sun to dapple among the leaves was outrageous. Also, I remember her effrontery in being in Paris for Fashion Week last year, and I knew that her driver drove NEAR the tunnel where the media chased Diana’s car, and I knew that Meghan had put her feet up in the back seat (because that was widely reported by the BM) but I did not know that Meghan’s legs were also crossed. Now, that’s beyond the pale. My God, how could she cross her legs AND put them up, as if she was, Oh, I don’t know, tired. I used to support the Sussexes, but I just don’t see how I can continue to do so when I know that she actually put her feet up AND crossed her legs, for God’s sake! /s.

  2. QuiteContrary says:

    What enrages these nutters is that the Sussex children — who are mixed-race — look so much like Diana: tall and ginger-haired. With her long ginger hair, Lili looks so much like I picture young Diana, walking around the Althorp grounds.

    There is nothing callous or vulgar about these photos. They are a respectful and lovely way to honor Diana — because they show that her grandchildren are being raised to know who she was.

    (And I imagine Kate is kicking herself for never having produced photos like these.)

    • tara says:

      harry said Lillibet has diana’s big blue eyes; the only one of her grandchildren w/her eyes.

      • CatGotMyTongue says:

        Harry has Diana’s eyes. They aren’t as big, but they are brimming with her light and compassion.

        The other brother has angry eyes.

    • sunniside up says:

      What right have the media to criticise, have they forgotten that Lilibet, and Archie are descended from Diana. Maureen Callahan claims to speak for William, can’t do anything about that, but to claim from Charles as well is another matter, Charles discarded his wife in favour of his mistress.

    • harriet says:

      Diana didn’t grow up at Althorp. She grew up at Park Lodge in Sandringham. She moved to Althorp when she was 14 when Johnny became earl.

      • QuiteContrary says:

        14 is still pretty young! I remember a photo of a young Diana in a cute skirt posing at Althorp.

      • Myself says:

        14 might be a little young but she then moved to London at 17/18, so it’s not like she was there very long. Not that it matters; I don’t think that Althorp the place is the most important part of Diana’s history…

      • harriet says:

        @myself–yeah, she went to finishing school in Switzerland when she was 16, so I don’t think it’s far to say she grew up at Althorp. (because this is apparently the point I need to make this afternoon in the only life I get to live–SHUT UP BRAIN)

        she was also always a blonde, not a ginger. That said from the glimpses we’ve had, Lili probably looks like her. I’m sure she and Archie are both future heartbreakers.

      • Magdalena says:

        harriet, there are photographs of Diana and her siblings as children and of Diana on her own, even as a teenager, which show that Diana was very much a redhead, just like her siblings. That blonde hair you saw when she was all grown up was not her natural hair colour.

        Whether she grew up there or not is not a marker of whether it was the most important part of her history. That’s where the Spencer family seat is, and THAT is why it is most associated with her. If it weren’t an important part of her history (especially now that she’s buried there), then the haters wouldn’t totally lose what’s left of their tiny minds at the thought of Meghan, her daughter-in-law, visiting and spending time at the estate with her brother and sisters and the extended Spencer clan.

      • QuiteContrary says:

        To be clear, I didn’t say Diana grew up at Althorp.

    • GTWiecz says:

      They were hoping they’d have Doria’s complexion so they could further abuse them. Kate was worried about that 😆. Then they come very fair skinned with the red hair. Nothing pleases those haters.

    • Deborah says:

      I love that Lili is has her own wee purse tucked over her elbow. Diana would approve.

  3. Krista says:

    Are these people ok? I mean, it sounds like he’s going to stroke out any second over this. How can anyone reading this take it seriously?

  4. 1st timer says:

    They. Are. Not. Well.

  5. Jais says:

    Yeah, I can’t even take this seriously. That “good people” everywhere should be outraged over this. Umm, no sorry. Cute kids holding flowers as they walk around the estate in which their grandmother is buried. And??? So what. Anyways, you know what’s funny. I’m almost certain that KP is gonna at some point start doing long insta photo carousels and it’s going to be lauded by these same people. It’s only a matter of time.

    • Graphinya Heather says:

      An estate in which their grandmother is buried, but also an estate where their great uncle, who they visit, currently lives.

      • Fredi says:

        and where their Spencer relations have lived for 500 years……

      • Jeanette says:

        I read its also open to the public but was only closed for the 3 days they were visiting. SMH..cray..

    • Clancy says:

      They’re all being disgusting about a family seeing their mother/ grandmother’s grave. I’m even shocked how strong this has been. I post pics when I go to my parents grave. The abuse the sussexes get. Honestly, every day I pray for the worst for all these disgusting creatures. Nothing else i can do

      • Graphinya Heather says:

        They’re only outraged because THESE specific family members are seeing their mother’s/grandmother’s grave.

    • Eurydice says:

      They’re outraged that Meghan, Archie and Lili have an actual right to be there.

      • Where'sMyTiara says:

        Nailed it Eurydice. It’s one of their favorite racist tropes now: “How dare Meghan bring her mixed race babies to visit the resting place of their own grandmama?”

        That’s what they’re really telling people, and in doing so they’re very much telling on themselves.

      • QuiteContrary says:

        Exactly.

    • GTWiecz says:

      Maureen and her twin American sister Meghan McCain have too many loose screws.

    • Jais says:

      Y’all. Y’all. This prediction didn’t even make it a day before happening.

  6. Lady Digby says:

    It sucks to write for the Daily Outrage, doesn’t it? The Fail were outraged to not have all the details and photos leaked to them by the usual suspects. The Fail believe they OWN the RF and they have bought Meghan ‘s own father but Harry and Meghan rightly despise this rag. They have done their best to destroy their reputations and livelihoods but haven’t succeeded. They’d like them to divorce and be broke. Failed at that. Harry is the youngest son of Charles and Diana. Meg is his darling wife and their children are the grandchildren of the King and Diana. Diana and her memory belong to her sons and family that loved her. Daily Outrage aren’t related to Diana and have no rights in anything pertaining to her let alone how Harry and Meghan and her grandchildren mourn her.

    • Mayp says:

      💯💯💯. When this article first came out, I looked at the comments and they were overwhelmingly: So what? Tourists take pictures there all the time. The next day I checked the comments and the Daily Mail had unleashed the bots with all kinds of ridiculous, negative and hostile comments. I think people are tired of this years-long tirade of the Daily Mail against the Sussexes so it now has to resort, more and more, to bots.

    • CatGotMyTongue says:

      All of the photos of Harry with his mum are heartbreakingly sweet and beautiful. You can see the love. He’s found the same with Meghan.

      How can this make these idiots so mad?!

      I use mad in both senses of the word.

  7. Yvette says:

    Many people and outlets have posted a photo taken by a Mirror tabloid photographer of William, Kate, George, and Charlotte in 2017 visiting Diana’s grave. Harry might have been with them but he wasn’t in the photo.

    The photo first appeared online last week after derangers said the Sussexes were horrible parents for taking their young children to visit a grave.

    • Chrissie T says:

      Yes do a google search of William and Kate visit Diana’s grave, there are multiple photos with their children and not just paparazzi pics, they look official. Also pics of William and Harry at the grave and reports in the Mail about a visit by Kate pre wedding- no outrage. So Maureen if Megan’s discreet photos are a problem. Why, what’s the difference, I wonder.

      • sunniside up says:

        https://www.facebook.com/groups/700877328175915/posts/1458466939083613/ Kate and Charlotte both wearing black, but they never met her.

      • IuKasztanka says:

        @Sunnidude up
        God, they look like the Addams Family. An anniversary isn’t a funeral… and that cake. It looks grotesque—with a red-faced William straining to produce tears (which I don’t believe in for a second) and Kate’s strange, triumphant smile. They’re the ones who turned this into a circus. They showed up at the grave just to pose for a photo…!

      • Yvette says:

        @sunniside up … The photo I referenced is from 2017. In that photo George is holding William’s hand and is clearly 3 or 4 years old and Kate is carrying Charlotte, who looks to be around 2-years old.

        That Facebook photo you’ve linked above is fake. Diana’s grave is alone in a pillared vault on a small island in the center of a pond and you can’t access it without a boat. Looks like someone ‘AI-ed’ a photo for amusement or to make a point.

    • Irisrose says:

      Yes they were there for the commemoration on dianas birthday. Meghan flew over to be there with harry.

      W&k banned Meghan from attending with Harry because she wasn’t “family”. Forced harry to face that alone. They were engaged months later.

      They had no problem allowing nanny Maria and her team being with them at the graveside. Just not meghan.

      • Mayp says:

        I seem to recall that, technically, it was Earl Spencer that forbade Meghan’s presence, at the instigation of William and Kate (it is, after all, his estate). It was also reported that Spencer, at Williams behest, talk to Harry that summer about “slowing down” with Meghan. If it’s true, along with the prior watermelon tableau, I am glad to see that Earl Spencer has seen the light. Harry and Meghan are better people than me. I never would have forgotten, or forgiven, those offenses.

      • Nerd says:

        MAYP I don’t believe that any of that happened with Charles Spencer. The entire Spencer family has continued to be part of every aspect of their lives. From their courtship, a cousins wedding, their wedding, acknowledgment during their children’s births, their children’s Christenings, Meghan secretly visiting Althorp to visit Diana’s grave, the Invictus Games ten year anniversary celebration and statements where they always include acknowledging and thanking the Spencers, like in Harry’s book. I think they needed to make it appear as if the problem was Meghan pulling Harry away from family which is difficult to do when we see he still has a close relationship with his mother’s side even though he was raised purely in the royal bubble.

      • Mayp says:

        @nerd, in case you haven’t seen it, here is a picture of the “watermelon tableau” that Charles Spencer posted to his Twitter account not long before Harry and Meghan’s wedding (it was subsequently deleted when there was a bit of an uproar)..

        https://x.com/PatriciaTreble/status/995304762995281921

        A photo of a tableau in which “Harry” is surrounded by empty beer bottles and a much darkened “Meghan” is in front of a big ol’ slice of watermelon. Or, are you going to deny that this actually happened?

        I also believe that the only person that could have banned Meghan from attending the 2017 memorial event at Althorp is the Earl Spencer, the owner of the property. And didn’t Harry himself confirm that Charles Spencer spoke to him about slowing down with Meghan?

        Like I said previously, I’m glad that Charles Spencer appears to have seen the light. But to ignore, indeed deny, his past suspect behavior is inappropriate.

    • Siri says:

      That’s obviously photoshopped. There are other gravestones in that cemetery.

      • Nerd says:

        Yes those photos seem photoshopped but it’s an unhinged reason to be angry at Meghan for posting an image from Althorp when it’s not Diana’s gravesite and it is a photo that tourists would take anyway without outrage. It’s obvious that the real issue is that Diana’s biracial family members are able to honor her and decent people don’t see vulgarity, callousness or going to low for a son to bring his children and wife to see THEIR beloved family member and honor her as a family. They need to introduce their own ridiculous and racist narrative to attack this biracial family for being happy after everything they have done to prevent them from being happy.

      • BeanieBean says:

        Yeah, c’mon folks, a cake?

  8. Robin Webb says:

    Speaking of vulgar, anyone besides me surprised we haven’t heard anything from Toxic Tom, Jr. & Scammy Sammy? I thought surely they would be all over the BM by now.

    • 810Mama says:

      @Robin Webb

      We’ll not be seeing Scammy or the other deplorable Marklebillies unless they are getting paid. Scammy will want a particularly big pay day because she more than likely is feeling the pain of being irrelevant. How thew mighty have fallen!

      I knew it! I knew it! They got used to the Meghan Hating Gravy Train and expected it to chug along forever. Nobody is interested in paying them for the same tired narratives…

  9. Dee(2) says:

    There’s nothing vulgar about posting a photo with bouquets in your hand. There’s nothing explicit about they were doing, people are just making deductions based on where they were. They’re acting like she posted a recreation of the Grant Gustin meme at Diana’s grave.

    The real issue is they don’t want to acknowledge the Spencers’ and they are denied a matching photo from the Windsors that they did want to be able to acknowledge. They want to be able to write articles about how magnanimous Charles is, to have allowed photos and do body language analysis on Harry and Meghan, and the kids.

    It’s the same way and how they basically pretend that Harry has no family connection, because of his issues with Charles and William. As if the Windsors aren’t a large extended family, and as if the Spencer’s don’t exist. Even though he still clearly connects with Eugenie, has hosted his uncle and his aunts at home in Montecito, and went to see the Duke of Kent after his wife died.

    They want their narrative to be that Meghan is a callous, crude, outside who causes trouble and being welcomed into the Spencer’s ancestral seat, a family that is the bluest of blue bloods, just decimates that narrative.

    • FrenchLadyJuliet says:

      I think the message is implicit: they are on their way to visit Diana’s memorial. And Meghan wanted to make the point that they indeed paid respects to Diana with their two little children. It is beautiful in its simplicity and serenity.

      But how in the world is it “vulgar” ???!!!!!!

      I’m Canadian and I just thought this photo was sending a moving message.

      Is it a “faux pas” in the UK ? Or is the reporter simply spewing hate towards Meghan and creating a negative narrative out of nothing?

  10. bisynaptic says:

    An agreement with Charles meant Meghan had to stay invisible? LOL These people are so bitter they can’t have pictures of her.

    • Mel says:

      Oh and I don’t think the no pictures edict came from Charles, I think that was Harry and Meghan who don’t want pictures of their children in the hands of these lunatics. Charles would have LOVED to show off these kids and pretend that he’s a good Dad/Grandad. The picture with Uncle Charles in the background probably sent them into even more of a spiral. That’s what they wanted, they didn’t get it and they’re big mad.

      • BeanieBean says:

        Agreed. I think the no photos rule came from M&H.

      • Nerd says:

        The not photos taken was definitely from Harry and Meghan. They have spent the past several years protecting their children by not showing their faces and there is no way that they were going to go against that in a very volatile environment like what they escaped six years ago. According to the media this would have been their second visit with Charles, yet there wasn’t any talk about an agreement of no photos at the time, even though they were accusing Meghan of wearing a wire and a camera in her clothes. So if Charles didn’t make such a stern rule for the Sussexes back then when they all claimed they had Netflix cameras following them everywhere, then it definitely wasn’t Charles who was the one who made that rule for this meeting. It’s also likely that they lied about Charles meeting Archie and Lilibet during Jubilee week because he didn’t even bother to attend Lilibet’s first birthday. I’m convinced they have lied about both, it wasn’t Charles who refused the meeting if there were photos taken and he lied about meeting Archie and Lilibet during Jubilee because just like this situation, the outpouring of support of them meeting another family member besides Charles is too much for his ego to handle. I was over them meeting Charles before the meeting ever happened and I am overjoyed that Meghan has shared tiny glimpses of their family’s summer.

  11. Amy Bee says:

    Last week these same people were saying that Meghan and children weren’t in the UK. Now they’re upset that they were there and that they stayed at Althrop. Charles doesn’t care about this photo or anything that has to do with Diana and the Spencer family. Apparently where Harry, Meghan and the children were walking is a popular path for tourists on the estate.

  12. Carmen says:

    Sĥhhh🤫

  13. KristenfromMA says:

    William and Kate are decent and serious people? [snort laugh]

  14. garrity says:

    So there’s a deeper threat here, of course, and that is this: another audience for this is the British aristocracy, who have long recognized that they’re more British than the Johnny-come-lately, German Windsors. The Spencers are *firmly* in the More British than the Crown camp, and the Windsors know it. This photo therefore undercuts the palaces’ attempts to exile the Sussexes by stating plainly that the Sussexes have *more* British connections available and welcoming them, and don’t need the Windsors for anything – not for security, not for safety and a place to stay, and – here’s the kicker – NOT for their legitimacy as British aristocrats, either. It can, at that level of the game, be read as a smirking “and who do you think you are, again?” aimed at Chuck and Wills, who have both publicly abandoned Diana, her legacy, and her legitimacy (in aristocratic terms.)

    And good for the Sussexes, I say.

  15. Alicky says:

    I can still barely see flowers (just some kind of parcel) in Lili’s hands, much less Archie’s and Harry’s. And this is somehow “obscene”. Holy shit, these people are both deranged and dangerous.

    • harriet says:

      I don’t think Lili is carrying flowers–she’s carrying a blanket and a purse. Not that it much matters.

  16. Shiela Kerr says:

    Those gutter rats on salt island are enraged that Meghan is living her life and dreams out loud. They have zero photos of their time in the UK and the pictures they have seen are filled with joy.

  17. Mel says:

    The meltdown over pictures that show absolutely nothing but a family living their lives. Ridiculous. What they don’t get is their over the top whining about every little thing she does, is getting her more fans because the bullying is over the top even for most people. They are just big mad that she controls her narrative not them and that they have ZERO access to the grandchildren who look the most like Diana.

  18. Kasztanka says:

    I remember a year or two ago, in September, when Harry flew in from the States—I think for a court case—and visited his grandmother’s grave because it happened to be the anniversary. He did it discreetly, using the back entrance, and didn’t comment on it at all.
    But a tourist or some other visitor spotted him, publicized it in the media, and a huge fuss ensued.
    Why? Well, because it was the anniversary of Elizabeth’s death; the entire royal family, who were right there, ignored it, while the only person who actually commemorated Elizabeth was the grandson living across the pond.
    Of course, they started by criticizing Harry—asking how he could go there—but then they quickly sent Andrew with flowers (he was probably the only one not on vacation), and suddenly there was a photo and an article in the *Mail*. Later that evening, they reported that Edward had gone too, I think, but I don’t recall seeing any photos—meaning no proof.
    If not for Harry’s visit to Elizabeth’s grave, no one would have shown up there, because it hadn’t been part of their plans.
    It’s a similar situation here. Talk of William’s “hurt feelings” sounds embarrassing, considering he calls his mother paranoid and insists on blocking and removing her own words from the media—yet that doesn’t stop him from talking about her and capitalizing on her popularity every time he opens his mouth in public.
    They’re also furious because the photos of Lili and the others are adorable and show family bonds with Diana’s side of the family—whereas I assume William’s children have never even set foot on the Spencer estate. They’re about to start some AI production any minute now :)))
    Poor things: they’re constantly chasing after those Sussexes—tracking, stalking, and copying them—yet they’re still trailing miserably far behind. :)))

    • Mayp says:

      👏👏👏. I remember being very surprised that the Royals didn’t do something to commemorate the Queen on the anniversary of her death. Don’t the Brits have a memorial service, or other commemoration, after 1 year typically? Or, is it just the once after after 10 years?

  19. harriet says:

    Every single one of those pictures of Will & Kate, George and Charlotte purportedly at Diana’s grave are fake or AI. Every one.

    There are no real pictures, probably because the Waleses have never been there.

    • Irisrose says:

      They were in July 2017, when they banned Meghan from a private memorial on Diana’s birthday.

      • harriet says:

        Well, she wasn’t even engaged to Harry yet. Furthermore, there are no pictures.

      • Irisrose says:

        Not sure why you’re sticking up for w&k here.

        Pictures or no pictures is irrelevamt.

        Harry wanted her there for this private event, she should have been allowed. She flew over special to be with him for the event.

        Harry told staff within six weeks of meeting her that she was the one. He knew right away.

        They got engaged a few months after this memorial event.

        W&k took their damn nannies there for a private “family” event but wouldn’t allow Meghan, whom Harry had been seeing for a year.

      • harriet says:

        I’m not “sticking up for w and K.”

        If it were my mother, I certainly wouldn’t want my brother’s girlfriend at a private family event. I don’t care if they’d been seeing each other for a year or not; at that point she’s not part of the family and it’s inappropriate to have her there. In fact I remember, come to think of it, my brother’s girlfriend trying to comfort my mother at my other brother’s funeral and my main thought was “You don’t have the right.”

    • Nerd says:

      This wasn’t a royal engagement, it was supposed to be an engagement that was separate from royal life so there is no reason why Harry shouldn’t have been allowed to bring Meghan to that event as someone he clearly loved enough to want her there. This was about two sons honoring their mother and it would have been understandable for both of them to have people there that they love as support to honor their mother. Besides as I recall, the nanny was also there who was staff and unrelated or engaged to either brother.

      • harriet says:

        As for nannies, if it were a solemn event and the kids were toddlers, I wouldn’t have a problem with my brother bringing a nanny. They are just there to wrangle the children probably in the background so W&K could have a private moment. Again that’s not the same as bringing the girlfriend and again, not taking W&K’s side, just explaining how I as a reasonable person might consider nannies and girlfriends in two different groups.

      • Kasztanka says:

        Please Harriet, chill out, none of the children has a monopoly on their parents. Diana was just as much Harry’s mother as she was William’s, and Harry could take whomever he wanted to her grave.
        Your posts reveal the tendencies of an autocrat—someone who not only wants to dictate what everyone else is allowed to do but even wants a monopoly on feelings. Your brother’s girlfriend “had no right” to comfort her boyfriend’s mother after the loss of her son because… what? Because *you* say so? Because only *you* are allowed to? Because only *you* decide who gets permission? Do you issue written authorization? I suppose the people gathered at the funeral weren’t allowed to comfort your mother or offer their condolences either, since they had no right to do so.
        In the face of tragedy or memorial gatherings, your pettiness, possessiveness, and downright emotional terrorism are horrible. .
        I feel sorry for your brother’s girlfriend—or any girlfriend of his, for that matter.

      • harriet says:

        Kasztanka

        Because she wasn’t family.

        ‘In the face of tragedy or memorial gatherings, your pettiness, possessiveness, and downright emotional terrorism are horrible. .
        I feel sorry for your brother’s girlfriend—or any girlfriend of his, for that matter.”

        Eyeroll. You feel bad because I mentally eyerolled at my brother’s funeral? Because I didn’t like my brother’s girlfriend who was a big fake muttering to my mother?

        Emotional terrorism? Oh honey, how old are you FFS? Seriously?Give up the drama. My brother didn’t marry her. I will let you know that my emotional terrorism committed in 1987 has been duly noted by an internet stranger. Give it a rest before you reach voting age, just a suggestion.

      • GTWiecz says:

        @harriet I firmly agree with Kasztanka. Your comment about Meghan not being able to be with her boyfriend of one year and your comment about your brother’s girlfriend are both unhinged. I’ve been noticing an invasion of anti-Meghan accounts on pro-Harry and Meghan subs on Reddit and here and I think royalists are up in arms because the general public is seeing this whole madness and are utterly tired of the abuse H&M, but especially Meghan, get, yet they soldier on and are happy. This same general public are also becoming tired and angry at the abusers W&K and C&C. The decade long abuse of Meghan is going to be the downfall of this feudal royal institution. Enough is enough!

  20. jferber says:

    William called his mother paranoid and Charles might have co-conspired with Camilla to have Princess Diana killed. Now that she’s dead and out of their way (no longer overshadowing), her grave is “sacred.” Thus, any pictures from the entire estate of Althorp are “vulgar and callous.” No, Charles was vulgar and callous to Diana while she lived. He cheated on her with other women, isolated her and treated her hideously in general. Harry was and is a good son. Meghan was and is a good daughter-in-law. The fault lies with the vulgar and callous Windsor family for harassing the Sussexes and continuously putting them in danger of their lives (and maybe putting her in her “sacred” grave in the first place). The hypocrisy! William even banned a documentary in England that Princess Diana wanted seen to get across her side of the story. William has clearly chosen sides, and it’s with the vulgar and callous Windsors.

  21. Jferber says:

    I am referring to Diana when I wrote “putting her in her sacred grave.”

  22. Boxy Lady says:

    The best thing about this is that later, Diana’s brother Charles put a video on Instagram that actually showed the island where Diana is buried. As if to say,”Let’s see what the press says about this!” Not a peep, of course. I wouldn’t even know about it if it wasn’t posted on Reddit.

    ETA: the Reddit link. https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryandMeghanNetflix/s/iTkYPgtt3T

    Also, it was officially Althorp House that posted it and not just Charles Spencer, my bad.

    • Kittenmom says:

      Yes, pretty amazing of him to do that. Made me cackle. They also posted a shot of an actual grave of a Spencer brother that died as an infant. Callous and vulgar my *ss.

  23. Siri says:

    People take pictures at cemeteries and burial spots all the time, Arlington National Cemetery, Pere LaChaise, and Forest Lawn in LA just to name a few. People love to make a big deal out of nothing if it’s done by Meghan or Harry.

    I guess people forgot that there is a photo of QEII’s tomb marker and it was taken and given permission for publishing by the Royal Collection Trust. Royalists are so tiring with their faux outrage and constant nonsense.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63020705

    • Nerd says:

      I remember seeing those images and being disgusted that they would share such photos publicly after they made her funeral and mourning period into a real circus by using their opportunity to attack the Sussexes instead of honoring the late Queen who had just died. They have done the same thing by sharing photos of Diana’s burial sight even though none of them are related to her. So to be angry with Meghan (Diana’s DIL) for sharing an area that tourist are privileged to see, it is a huge stretch of racist hate.

      • Siri says:

        I just actually read the whole article and realized that they were allowing the public to PAY to enter the chapel and view Queen Elizabeth’s marker. These people need not ever complain about this subject again.

      • Magdalena says:

        @Siri That was what disgusted me. They were literally hawking tickets to taxpayers to view the grave marker of the former head of this already heavily taxpayer-funded family – in a CHURCH. Sweet Lord. How vulgar. How common. How callous. All the adjectives they like to use for the Black princess.

  24. TheWigletOfWails says:

    Even in death they’re still using and abusing Diana. Let her rest in peace ffs.

  25. Siri says:

    What on earth does the agreement of “no leaks, no photos” with Charles have to do with Althorp? Most of the articles written by the British press are like word salads. They just throw any nonsense in there.

    Is the author not aware that Althorp IS a tourist attraction?

    How many times are they going to repeat that nonsense about Meghan taking a photo near where Princess Diana died? She was at the Pont Alexandre not the Pont de l’Alma. Two different bridges.

    • harriet says:

      When it comes to Meghan, “near” means “in the same city.”

    • Nerd says:

      It’s just them adding everything but the kitchen sink to make it look as if they really have a strong argument. They even threw in Oprah in this article about a DIL taking photos of her children and husband visiting his late mother to honor her. Most people wouldn’t have known where they were at, just from the photos, if it weren’t for the obsessive media. The same thing was done with her visit with Paris in the car where they LIED and implied that she was mocking Diana (?) by being miles away from where she died. They are the ones who stalk them and then are angry about what they have worked themselves into a tizzy about. They’re deranged and it is very obvious in their articles about the Sussexes being happy.

  26. Elizabeth Kerri Mahon says:

    Maureen Callahan is an American woman who has clearly sold her soul to the Daily Mail. There is a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women but collect a paycheck to write vile articles.

    • Magdalena says:

      Exactly, I wanted to ask: WHY is an American woman so damned exercised about “defending” the British royal family, to the point of lying about the American member of said royal family, if not racism? I googled her and understood. Then I saw that she was tight with people like Megyn Kelly and the “My father” McCain woman, and understood even more.

      • harriet says:

        Because she’s paid a lot? Do you honestly think she gives a rat’s ass except she’s paid to be a hater?

  27. Lady Digby says:

    What was vulgar and disrespectful and undignified was Kate at the funeral of Prince Philip. She brought her photographer along and posed extensively and extravagantly during COVID imposed restrictions. She was far from grieving, dignifed, restrained and appropriate.

    • Irisrose says:

      Add her co opting of the Sarah Everard spontaneous memorial.

      She showed up, during lockdown, with no mask and her photographer and videographer in tow. To record her “private” tribute to Everard.

  28. Al says:

    Imagine writing a whole abusive article about nothing? Jesus, when will this end?

  29. Tessa says:

    I guess Maureen thinks the keens have a monopoly on visiting Diana’s grave .so pathetic.

  30. Booboochile says:

    SIGH!!!! THESE PEOPLE HAVE GROUND ME TO A PULP. This is no longer just negative reporting, there is a palpable hatred imbued in every word. I used to think some of our commenters were taking it too far stating that the BM want Megan dead. But are they though? Perhaps they aren’t crazy?

    I am beginning to understand that view because Jesus help us this is not normal? No wonder she wanted to unalive herself at one point because this is a heavy cross to bear. But she carries it with kindness and wisdom. I have not read one word that is as malicious at the BM. Because the level of vitriol in their articles is astonishing. I couldn’t bear it myself. She is very brave and she must have a big heart filled with love to circumvent all that hate. I would have been a useless desperate heap of despair.

    God bless her and keep her and the children safe.

  31. Tessa says:

    Facebook has a i photos of keen with Louis who sings at Diana’s grave site which is an a i picture of a fake grave

  32. Lily says:

    She obviously had permission from the Earl to post them and that’s all she needs.

    Deal with it William. Althorp isn’t yours.

  33. Jane says:

    I can’t even read their psychotic screeds anymore. The less attention given, the better.

  34. The real Queen says:

    So jealous of her and Harry

  35. Magdalena says:

    “Consider that Prince William has visited Diana’s grave, surely with Catherine, Princess of Wales and their children. Have we ever, ever, seen a photo of them at Althorp? Of course not. ”

    Of course not. Because despite what the rota dutifully reported at the time, I don’t think they’ve been. That word “surely” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting.

    And I don’t think that Charles insisted that no photos of the Highgrove meeting be released. He would have been desperate for a photo with the children to be publicised, to give his media helpers the “money shot” they had been salivating for, especially after the bad press he had been receiving for his treatment of his own son. It’s Opposites Day again. It was the Sussexes who insisted that NO photographs be publicised as a condition of meeting Charles, not the other way around. The reason the media keep insisting that Charles “ordered” them not to post any photos is that (1) they want to keep up the pretence that Charles has the power to order them to do anything and (2) they are especially pissed that they have still not got any of his staff or even Camilla to leak photographs of the children or even of Meghan for them to use for clicks. (3) They have NO control over what Harry and Meghan do or say, they can’t predict what Meghan may post on her Instagram and they can’t make money from it or claim that they’ve got any exclusives.

  36. jferber says:

    Booboochile, Right with you. 100 percent.

  37. blunt talker says:

    Let’s get one thing straight-Charles and Diana are divorced-she is buried on her family’s plot of land-she had two sons with Charles-however her sons want to honor her is their business only-Charles needs to keep his piehole shut because this does not have anything to do with him or his property-Harry wanted them photos released to show his children visiting grandma Diana’s grave-nobody can tell him how to honor his mother-Charles needs to shut up and Will needs to find another seat-Harry and Meghan are teaching their children about Princess Diana and it is Harry’s right to show them their grandma however he chooses-I will stand with the Sussex family on this issue until the cows come home.

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