But you are good about making assumptions becca.
Well I worked in an elite private school in my city and there are several reasons why parents send their kids to private. Mine was independent (not for profit aka all the money goes back into the school, salaries etc). Teachers are very highly paid here and I don’t think? that teachers in the U.S. are as highly paid). I believe there are a ton more for profit schools in the U.S. and we have some too but I am not that familiar with the U.S. schools.
I, too, was very touched by Charles walking Meghan down the aisle. There had been dodgy press in the lead up but the public mood was really positive and I was very hopeful for them as well as her being a great new addition to the Royal Family that day.....until the sermon. When I saw the behaviour of some of the family while the pastor spoke during that service, I was appalled. They LOATHED it, were excrutiatingly embarrassed by it and what was worse, they didn't even try to hide their furtive glances and giggles during it. I had an awful feeling right then that this would not end well. Also, imagine finally settling down to watch your own wedding video and to re-live the best day of your life, only to find your new family sniggering at something that you obviously held dear. That had to have cut to the quick - for both of them.
Honestly, the stuff that Meghan brought up and implied that race was a factor in - specifically regarding security and titles/styles - was wrong. I don't have any problem with her decrying the UK tabloids and some of the blatant race baiting they engaged in. That, flat out, is problematic to say the least and factually provable. The security and title issues - not so much and, as someone who has actively followed not just the BRF but many royal families for the last 12-15 years, it doesn't jibe with me at all. Others have pointed out that most European royal families are moving to reduce the number of people entitled to HRH titles in their royal families, others have pointed out that security would have been provided for the Sussexes kids just by nature of their parents home being Frogmore Cottage and that the BRF doesn't actually make those determinations but instead the Metropolitan Police Protection Command. There are legitimate reasons to doubt the absolute veracity of a lot of what M&H said in that interview and I stand by my view that trashing the BRF over the titles and security and implying that Archie's skin tone/race was a factor in those decisions was gross and unnecessary.
And people aren’t making assumptions about the royal family? Archie doesn’t have a title that means the royal family is racist that’s a pretty huge assumption.
I don't miss aftershocks, and I understand why H&M don't feel supported by the firm. But at the same time, show some class and say they're happy and moving on.
The best part of the wedding was watching Charles move into position and then walking Meghan down the aisle. He looked beyond thrilled to be doing it.
Are you sure they loathed it or that they were in shock just not use to it?
There were literally members of that family sniggering. Rude regardless of how kindly you try to spin it and strangely only in response to a black man speaking. From people trained to have best poker faces in Britain? Please give me a break that they couldn't do better at pretending/concealing such an obnoxious reaction. I personally prefer to have seen the truth but let's not now pretend that behaviour can be excused.
And somehow not a scrap of cynicism or skepticism to be directed at the BRF. One of the strangest, most secretive and entitled (hereditary and unearned yet here it is still enduring) institutions on the planet but your concerns are directed at H&M disrespect and destructiveness to it. What H&M have costed/would have costed is a drop in the ocean compared to centuries of the royal family but yes lets aim all the cynicism at H&M specifically and ignore that H at least became what/who he is having been born into that family.
No one is denying it exists and yes
Looking back yes snickering shouldn’t have happened. But bad manners isn’t necessarily malice or racism.
Banned.
How do you know what these people were sniggering about?
I always get up for Royal Weddings but set my alarm wrong for Harry and Meghan’s. I did watch a replay but you really have to watch it live. I absolutely believe that Charles was extremely happy and proud to walk her down the aisle. I thought Doria rocked too. I didn’t read comments. Social media can just be very ugly I refuse to participate in it.
Is "Morgan" the Q-Anon addition to this story?
Yes, if we ignore the elephant in the room, it will be almost like it isn't there.
No, Morgan would be a typo. What does this have to do with Security?
Maybe I should rephrase no need to bring up to the public should have been addressed in private with the folks involved.
There is always a need to bring up racism. We can't combat something we refuse to talk about.
For posting some batsh*t stuff. Which is why, when Prancer said people were reporting posts in this thread, my reaction was
. While I've seen some infurating posts in this thread, I haven't seen anything that actually breaks the rules or is as crazy as some of her stuff.
No, f*ck that shit. Again this kind of language is precisely what people use to shut down uncomfortable conversations.
