@canbelto That is an interesting read. They do a bit of cherry picking though.
“The British press, having attacked the couple continuously, now reacts with shock at this move. But the clues have been there for some time for anyone willing to read them.
There was the decision not to give
Archie a title from birth — something that is expected among royal children of this rank but which Meghan and Harry appear to have chosen to avoid. Then there were the rumors last spring that they
might relocate to a country in southern Africa.”
The British press have also given them a lot of fawning coverage. A bunch of article about how Meghan is “breaking the rules” (said as a compliment) and “modernizing the Monarchy. The same kind over coverage Diana, Sarah, and Kate got. You could almost just interchange the names. Yes, there has been a bunch of racism and that needs to be called out, but it has not all been race based. Furthermore, skewing facts like in the second paragraph (Anne’s kids don’t have titles and Anne is in a similar position to Harry,) and Edward’s kids have only curtesy titles, so H&M not asking the Queen for a title for Archie is not really ground breaking. In fact I would argue it was actually expected.
The article also does not mention any of the questionable decisions made by H&M that have contributed to their coverage in the press. Calling out bad or questionable decisions is what the press are expected to do.
@MacMadame I totally get that families are complicated and even small stuff can spiral out of control. People are inherently messy! The thing that I find slightly odd is that not one relative, other than Meghan’s mother, was at the wedding. Not one cousin, aunt, uncle, anyone from either side. Add that to Meghan’s statement about no one asking how she is doing. No friends close enough to be calling or texting regularly during her first year of motherhood? People seem willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on baby showers and flying H&M in private jets, they are willing to speak to the press, they apparently know enough about her relationship with her dad to slag him in People, but they don’t check in on the new mom?
The situation just seems weird to me. It just doesn’t add up. What about all of Harry’s friends? Surely he has close friends who are now friends with both Harry and Meghan. Again, no one checking in? It is this seemingly isolated existence along with the move to distance themselves from the only extended family Archie has, that seems, I don’t know, odd, for lack of a better word.
To be clear, H&M should absolutely do what they want. I am questioning how they are doing it and the appearance, at least, that what they are doing doesn’t really seem to address the problems they have stated they are having.
) I would think he would want Britain to be not racist at all.
