The Slowly Bumping Saga of Harry Markle Grinds to a Halt

 

The most thoroughly-colonized royal ever is having a bad year this week.  He has an autobiography due out soon, and my goodness, whatever will he have to say?  I predict that it will be a pastiche of accusations and excuses, and the whole thing will be a dreary embarrassment.  I’m not going to read it, of course, and now that the death of his dear gran The Queen has caught the not-royal couple off-guard while in-country (oopsy-daisy!), he has some decisions to make about what more to add, or leave out.  What a mess.

Speaking of mess, Meghan Markle Full of Nothing was interviewed in some online thing I’d never heard of, because I am not sophisticated.  You may have heard of her recent “I can say anything,” quote, which is reported as a clumsily-veiled threat — well, this is the interview being referenced, and it is a hoot.  I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I do recommend that you run right over there right now (link in quote below) and read the whole thing from top to bottom.  Why?  Well, Dear Reader, let me tell you!  I was watching some Aussie Sky News 4 coverage of that specifically English low-key hyperventilating about royalty in the news this week, and while the enunciating heads spoke of the “threat” made by the rich white woman not to keep her trap shut in her palatial home, something on screen referred to the article as a “sarcastic 6,400-word piece” or similar, and I just had to look.  You had me at “sarc”.

Finding a house to start their new life wasn’t easy, Meghan tells me. “We were looking in this area” — she’s referring to Montecito, the tony beachside hamlet north of Los Angeles — “and this house kept popping up online in searches.” At first, they’d resisted going to visit. “We didn’t have jobs, so we just were not going to come and see this house. It wasn’t possible. It’s like when I was younger and you’re window shopping — it’s like, I don’t want to go and look at all the things that I can’t afford. That doesn’t feel good.” How utterly humbled we all are when confronted with a depressingly aspirational Zillow hunt.

— Allison P. Davis in her article Meghan of Montecito in The CUT Magazine

So this online magazine The CUT is a frou-frou, New York, rich-people-and-their-nice-stuff photo and text thing.  Perhaps less than a magazine, it seems to be a column or an imprint of New York Magazine, which I certainly have heard of.  Still, I don’t read it.  I’ve just seen one article and a bunch of teaser headlines and glamour shots along the sidebar.  The writer, Allison P. Davis, seems to have been sacked following the supposedly negative reception to the article.  I’m guessing that said negative reaction came mostly from one thoroughly displeased rich white woman with a rich white woman complex, who is also the variable-hued savior of whoever needs saving at the time.  If you need to know the price of crossing Meghan, just look at her idiot husband — that guy has lost everything to appease her, and now lives in a rich white doghouse.  What’s fascinating here is that this (presumably) s’posed-ta-be fawning article calls them out on it.

The day before, while Meghan was on the photo shoot for this issue, Harry had been left to his own devices, he tells me. “You were gone for, like, ten hours yesterday,” he marvels to his wife. “Tell her the first thing you said when you got back last night,” he says, turning to me. “She said, ‘I’m not a model.’ “I was like, ‘No, you are, of course you can be a model.’ And she’s like, ‘I’m a mom!’ And it’s like, ‘You can be both,’ ” Harry says, earning himself so many points.

— Allison P. Davis not putting up with it

As an absolutely lit (as the kids say now) Reddit comment thread has it:

A:   This ain’t snark. This is high-quality snark. This is snarqé.
B:   From the Mont de Snarqé region in France.

The article is footnoted (if you will) with all the usual advertorial comments about the Manolo Blahnik shoes and Bottega Veneta dress.  The only time I have seen these terms before was in reference to some movie.  I am way out of my element even reading this column on a site I’ve never visited before and will likely never see again, especially if it’s true that Miss Allison P. Davis was let go or placed in the witness protection program.  It seems that the sarcasm flew under the radar for a good week or so, until the people who read this stuff on the regular (presumably) got a tap on the shoulder from people who actually know how to read, and were informed that it was not complimentary after all.  Not flattering.  Not fawning.

Apparently, the Harkles argued so long that Harry missed seeing the Queen before she passed.  Although she may have been “on ice” as it were until things were official anyway, but at any rate, Harry was late.  And then apparently (you can tell when I’m just gossiping) the nasty little thing from America (and his wife) were going to do their own “walk-about”, sniffing the flowers, waving at the poor people, until The Firm caught wind of it and shut that down real quick.  Apparently, they were in town originally with Netflix cameras and crew to bulk out some upcoming production, and the royal family was having none of it.  So William graciously extended an invitation to Harry for the former “fab four” to reunite for one last tour of the grounds.  So graciously that even Markle The Destroyer couldn’t wriggle out of it.  There’s an excellent clip running around of Kate giving Markle the nicest version of “the look” ever, and Markle fumbling, shaken, rebuffed.  Haw-haw.

I’ve disliked Markle for as long as her Harry adventure has been a thing, and loudly so.  I don’t know why she bothers me.  I think it’s because I see (and many other see) something there, a primordial scheming, grasping, abusive, evil woman with a presumably good man in her coils.  In the unflinchingly narrowed eyes of BabbaZee, I see you.  The destruction is nearly complete, the predicted damage of Megxit having closed out the modern truth that idiot princes who marry shrewish, entitled, trashy women do not live happily ever after.  That fool had it made but for a snake in his bed, a worm in his ear, and he let it all happen.  He has forsaken his family, his country, his people.  He is now a man who hates men, a Briton who hates Britain, and a white who hates whites — on account-a his rich white wife, see?  Honest-to-God, I had to be told that Meghan was “black,” haw haw, that’s a good one.  Rachel Dolezal has a more convincing blackface, and probably has a better claim on sweat equity being down wit the shchtruggggle.

She loves herself above all others, and he loathes himself.  They’re perfect for each other until he pulls his head out.  The first book I intend to read by him will be ten years after his inevitable divorce.  Harry and Meghan are race-hustling merchants of ninth-wave feminist grievance; she through design, he through weakness.  Seems like everybody is tired of their garbage now, and I’m glad to see it.  This roast of an article is deftly positioned in the mainstream of hoity-toity, and it is having an impact.  Bravo, Miss Davis!  Meghan of Montecito was not “silenced” — she just had nothing to say, and at the top of her lungs.

King Charles gave a speech creating William Prince of Wales, and Kate Princess, and so forth, and then expressed his great love for Harry and Meghan, wishing them luck “as they build their lives overseas.”

That’s exile.

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  1. She Member
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    Joseph Stanko (View Comment):

    BDB: King Charles gave a speech creating William Prince of Wales, and Kate Princess, and so forth, and then expressed his great love for Harry and Meghan, wishing them luck “as they build their lives overseas.”

    I’ve read that King Charlie wants to trim the fat from The Firm by cutting expenses and reducing the number of “working royals.” Perhaps Harry (or more likely Meghan) saw the writing on the wall and Megxit was intended as a preemptive “you can’t fire me, I quit” move?

    The number of working royals has already been substantially trimmed from the days of my childhood, when it extended to sundry princes of the realm, various dukes and duchesses, and random impedimenta of the children and grandchildren of King George V.  Days in which Prince Henry and Princess Alice of Gloucester were vitally important, and Princess Alexandra (Dad’s favorite royal, and the daughter of Elizabeth’s uncle the Duke of Kent and his wife Princess Marina of Greece) were also at the top of the heap. I can talk the Montagu-Douglases, the Worsleys, the Armstong-Joneses, and the Oglivys with the best of them, trust me.

    Most of that has since been shuffled off, leaving, at the core, a royal family that largely consists of the direct line of heirs to the throne and their siblings together with a few of those siblings’ offspring who’ve shown themselves to be down for the struggle.  Thus, Zara Tindall (Princess Anne’s daughter, whose last baby was born on the bathroom floor) works hard and is well thought of, whereas few people know anything about her brother Peter Phillips. Prince Edward (King Charles’s youngest brother) has somehow managed to survive the perception of him in his youth as a daft and insignificant wastrel, and has grown into the rather substantial Earl of Wessex, together with his Countess (the former Sophie Rhys-Jones) and has a rather lovely family that’s the only one of his mother’s that hasn’t been mired in divorce and scandal.  (You might note that some of these folks have refused, on their own behalf or that of their children, the titular “Royal Highness”  or “Prince” to which they were entitled by law, and have lived and grown up their children out of the limelight and in a rather normal way.)

    Along that way, one or two royals have been booted, either formally or informally, from their roles (Prince Andrew and Princess Michael), and at least one (Prince Harry) has self-deported for reasons of their own.

    I think–had Harry not been so, ummm, “whipped,” (Mr. She, former USMC, would have added an adjective to the phrase)–by his wife, he and Meghan would have been welcomed by “The Firm,” as indeed they were to start with.

    But I think Meghan hugely misread the situation and the zeitgeist of the family she was marrying into.

    First, like Wallis Simpson, she thought she’d live a marvelously privileged fairy princess life of being fawned over as a celebrity,

    and

    Second,  she thought she’d be important in the hierarchy because of her own claims to progressive modernity and celebrity, and that she’d be able to “lead” the more archaic aspects of the monarchy into the twenty-first century as a campaigner for human rights, globalization and climate change.

    The fact that neither of these things was actually the case, she’s now laying down to “never having been told” what life as a British royal might be like.  (Although I have clear recollections, over the course of months before she and Harry got married, of hearing that the royal household was putting her through all the paces, showing her the ropes, and teaching her what she was in for.)

    What I think Meghan was blind to is something that–perhaps–most Brits absorb by osmosis over the course of their young lives, and that, perhaps, the royal household thought was unnecessary to stress–that the leisure time of the British royals when they’re not “switched on” to the rest of the world is largely spent in drafty and ill-furnished tatty old castles with few modern amenities, and that their favored activities rarely involve either the red carpet or anything to do with social media, but are more likely to include things like energetic horse-riding, pheasant-shooting, and lengthy trudges across soggy moors, punctuated by indoor activities such as board games, jigsaw puzzles, charades, and endless cups of tea.  Generally, the best of them shun publicity, and put up with it only as necessary.  (Princess Diana was an anomaly in this regard, and perhaps that is part of Harry and Meghan’s problem too.)

    Someone (I think it was Mark Steyn) once said something to the effect that, “Meghan thought that she would be Princess Bountiful traipsing around to the unfortunate and the sick, and that people would praise her and revere her every move for her philanthropy.  What she didn’t realize is that when a member of the British royal family opens a hospice or visits a children’s hospital, nobody really cares which Royal it was.  The focus of the story is always on the sick children or the workers at the hospice center.  Not on the particular Royal.”

    I think there’s much truth to that.  It wasn’t so much that Meghan and Harry feared the intrusive publicity, but that they found there wasn’t as much intrusive publicity as they’d have liked.  (This explains why–despite incessant whining about their privacy and security–they can’t stop talking about themselves on social media, or complaining about their supposed mistreatment in print and on television.)

    And I think that when Markle realized that 1) she’d signed up for a pretty hard-working and thankless life, that 2) no-one really cared about her D-level acting career, 3) that most Brits thought it was tasteless for her to invite people she’d never actually met, like Oprah and George Clooney, to her wedding in order to “celebrityfy” it, and that 4) most Brits didn’t appreciate her turning every issue around to her own supposed advantage and sense of victimization, she decided it would be easier to bail and take her rather dimwitted and malleable husband with her.

    Sorry, not sorry.  I have no sympathy for them.  Harry made the last 30 months of his grandmother’s life hell.  She didn’t deserve that, but–whatever he has coming to him–is more than bought and paid for.

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    She (View Comment):
    It wasn’t so much that Meghan and Harry feared the intrusive publicity, but that they found there wasn’t as much intrusive publicity as they’d have liked.

    Awesome.

    The lady doth object, complain, challenge, cry out, remonstrate, bellyache, clamor, carry on, gripe (and grieve), grouse, make stink, demur, and protest too much.

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    BDB (View Comment):

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    It wasn’t so much that Meghan and Harry feared the intrusive publicity, but that they found there wasn’t as much intrusive publicity as they’d have liked.

    Awesome.

    I think Meghan thought she’d swan around opening hospitals and supporting charities, and be worshipped as Princess Diana had been. Reality ensued.

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    She (View Comment):
    The number of working royals has already been substantially trimmed from the days of my childhood, when it extended to sundry princes of the realm, various dukes and duchesses, and random impedimenta of the children and grandchildren of King George V.  Days in which Prince Henry and Princess Alice of Gloucester were vitally important, and Princess Alexandra (Dad’s favorite royal, and the daughter of Elizabeth’s uncle the Duke of Kent and his wife Princess Marina of Greece) were also at the top of the heap. I can talk the Montagu-Douglases, the Worsleys, the Armstong-Joneses, and the Oglivys with the best of them, trust me.

    A bit I found fascinating from a book, “Behind the Throne” by Adrian Tinniswood (2018) was the repeated waves since at least as early as the days of Elizabeth I of growth and then trimming of the numbers of people who were supported by the royal household budget. I guess like all organizations, bloat tends to creep in, and budget realities require occasional trimming. 

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    She (View Comment):
    … and that their favored activities rarely involve either the red carpet or anything to do with social media, but are more likely to include things like energetic horse-riding, pheasant-shooting, and lengthy trudges across soggy moors, punctuated by indoor activities such as board games, jigsaw puzzles, charades, and endless cups of tea.

    Yes!  This!  Just yesterday I was ranting to my wife (who interprets British ways and culture for me) that I was reading a British adventure story set around the turn of the last century, about an exiled ex-Foreign Service agent who has come into possession of a Great Secret that will change the world, and he has just died of a mysterious slow poison.  And yet he now is reviving from apparent death.  The nobleman at whose home he died is in mortal danger because he now knows the Great Secret; the dead man’s long lost love is in turmoil amidst her mourning; the attending doctor is very upset that he has already submitted the man’s death certificate for which there is no longer a deceased body to show.  And the world hangs in the balance.  Then this:

    “He is alive!’…”And more than that!  He will recover!”
    There was a short silence.  I had never seen Dr. Rust so agitated.  “You don’t seem to grasp quite all that this means,” the doctor continued…
    “You have signed the certificate?” I asked.
    He nodded.  “The undertaker has it.”
    The maid entered just then with the tea.  I ordered another cup for Rust, and when it had arrived, I made him sit down opposite me.

    This is so typical.  The world is in crisis.  Each of these people’s lives is in crisis.  And in the middle of it — they all sit down for tea!

    When I had finished detailing all this to my wife, she just casually reached down and sipped her tea.  Infuriating.

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    Flicker (View Comment):

    This is so typical.  The world is in crisis.  Each of these people’s lives is in crisis.  And in the middle of it — they all sit down for tea!

     

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    I will say Suits got better after Markle left. I finished that series recently and it was quite good at the end.

    I didn’t know she started out as a Deal or No Deal suitcase girl. I need to go back and look closer at the meme of Meghan hearing what the Queen left her in her will. It’s a Deal suitcase with $5. Maybe it was even Meghan holding the case.

    She’s fits the epithet Ace used for Megyn Kelly, Me-Again.

     

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    This is so typical. The world is in crisis. Each of these people’s lives is in crisis. And in the middle of it — they all sit down for tea!

     

    LOL.  My point exactly!

    Patton didn’t win the war, it was Earl Grey.

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    This is so typical. The world is in crisis. Each of these people’s lives is in crisis. And in the middle of it — they all sit down for tea!

     

    LOL. My point exactly!

    Patton didn’t win the war, it was Earl Grey.

    “Gen’earl Grey”?

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    Percival (View Comment):

    BDB: The most thoroughly-colonized royal ever is having a bad year this week. He has an autobiography due out soon, and My Goodness, whatever will he have to say? I predict that it will be a pastiche of accusations and excuses, and the whole thing will be a dreary embarrassment. I’m not going to read it, of course,

    I’ll wait for the coloring book.

    And just what color would that be, Mr. Udall?

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    She (View Comment):
    What I think Meghan was blind to is something that–perhaps–most Brits absorb by osmosis over the course of their young lives, and that, perhaps, the royal household thought was unnecessary to stress–that the leisure time of the British royals when they’re not “switched on” to the rest of the world is largely spent in drafty and ill-furnished tatty old castles with few modern amenities, and that their favored activities rarely involve either the red carpet or anything to do with social media, but are more likely to include things like energetic horse-riding, pheasant-shooting, and lengthy trudges across soggy moors, punctuated by indoor activities such as board games, jigsaw puzzles, charades, and endless cups of tea.

    That sounds perfect, where do I sign up?  Any eligible princesses looking for an American husband??

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    What I think Meghan was blind to is something that–perhaps–most Brits absorb by osmosis over the course of their young lives, and that, perhaps, the royal household thought was unnecessary to stress–that the leisure time of the British royals when they’re not “switched on” to the rest of the world is largely spent in drafty and ill-furnished tatty old castles with few modern amenities, and that their favored activities rarely involve either the red carpet or anything to do with social media, but are more likely to include things like energetic horse-riding, pheasant-shooting, and lengthy trudges across soggy moors, punctuated by indoor activities such as board games, jigsaw puzzles, charades, and endless cups of tea.

    That sounds perfect, where do I sign up? Any eligible princesses looking for an American husband??

    Your Princess is in another castle.

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    BDB: The most thoroughly-colonized royal ever is having a bad year this week. He has an autobiography due out soon, and My Goodness, whatever will he have to say? I predict that it will be a pastiche of accusations and excuses, and the whole thing will be a dreary embarrassment. I’m not going to read it, of course,

    I’ll wait for the coloring book.

    And just what color would that be, Mr. Udall?

    I thought I’d go with a Frank Frazetta palette, a bit on the dark side.

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    Fritz (View Comment):

    “as they build their lives overseas.”

    Takes a heart of stone not to laugh.

    I’m stealing that.

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    It wasn’t so much that Meghan and Harry feared the intrusive publicity, but that they found there wasn’t as much intrusive publicity as they’d have liked.

    Awesome.

    I think Meghan thought she’d swan around opening hospitals and supporting charities, and be worshipped as Princess Diana had been. Reality ensued.

    Bonus point for ‘swan’ as a verb, with about or around.  That needs a roaring 20’s typeface.

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    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):
    I guess like all organizations, bloat tends to creep in, and budget realities require occasional trimming. 

    See C. Northcote Parkinson, The Law of Growth.  Side-s(p)litting.

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    This is so typical. The world is in crisis. Each of these people’s lives is in crisis. And in the middle of it — they all sit down for tea!

     

    Finally found this:

     

     

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    “as they build their lives overseas.”

    Takes a heart of stone not to laugh.

    I’m stealing that.

    One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

    – Oscar Wilde, on Dickens’ character Little Nell

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    “as they build their lives overseas.”

    Takes a heart of stone not to laugh.

    I’m stealing that.

    One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

    – Oscar Wilde, on Dickens’ character Little Nell

    Gracias.  I’m so smart that I dismissed Dickens in High School and never looked back.  That’s why I don’t know anything.

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    “as they build their lives overseas.”

    Takes a heart of stone not to laugh.

    I’m stealing that.

    One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

    – Oscar Wilde, on Dickens’ character Little Nell

    Gracias. I’m so smart that I dismissed Dickens in High School and never looked back. That’s why I don’t know anything.

    I’ve stolen it myself now and then.

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    @She, what happened to Princess Michael? Why did they push her off balcony so to speak?

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    Exile ain’t just a band from the 1970’s:

     

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    Marjorie Reynolds (View Comment):

    @ She, what happened to Princess Michael? Why did they push her off balcony so to speak?

    She’s the wife of Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen’s second cousin and son of her uncle Prince George of Kent who was killed in the war.  My impression (probably via Granny, whose command of 20th-century royal minutiae was unparallelled) is that she’s always been regarded as a bit “off” and never very popular, perhaps owing to her exotic European (German/Czech/) ancestry and her father’s history as a Nazi cavalry officer in the War. (Strike 1.)  She’s also a Roman Catholic whose first marriage to an English nobleman was annulled by the pope.  (Strike 2.)  Days later, she married Prince Michael of Kent.

    She’s widely regarded as a racist, and there is a history of encounters and incidents that seem to back this up, although I did get a bit of a chuckle once on hearing that she had named her two black sheep Venus and Serena Williams.  I’m not sure, in and of itself, that’s evidence of ill-will or intent. But there are quite a few such stories, and in 2018 she was spotted on her way to meet Meghan Markle while wearing a large and ostentatious antique “blackamoor” brooch:

    Princess Michael of Kent with the blackamoor brooch

    She later apologized for causing offense, but, for good or ill, that was pretty much Strike 3.

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    @ She, what happened to Princess Michael? Why did they push her off balcony so to speak?

    She’s the wife of Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen’s second cousin and son of her uncle Prince George of Kent who was killed in the war. My impression (probably via Granny, whose command of 20th-century royal minutiae was unparallelled) is that she’s always been regarded as a bit “off” and never very popular, perhaps owing to her exotic European (German/Czech/) ancestry and her father’s history as a Nazi cavalry officer in the War. (Strike 1.) She’s also a Roman Catholic whose first marriage to an English nobleman was annulled by the pope. (Strike 2.) Days later, she married Prince Michael of Kent.

    She’s widely regarded as a racist, and there is a history of encounters and incidents that seem to back this up, although I did get a bit of a chuckle once on hearing that she had named her two black sheep Venus and Serena Williams. I’m not sure, in and of itself, that’s evidence of ill-will or intent. But there are quite a few such stories, and in 2018 she was spotted on her way to meet Meghan Markle while wearing a large and ostentatious antique “blackamoor” brooch:

    Princess Michael of Kent with the blackamoor brooch

    She later apologized for causing offense, but, for good or ill, that was pretty much Strike 3.

    Thanks @She. 
    I wouldn’t blame her for the naming of the sheep, I’ve done similar 😁

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    @ She, what happened to Princess Michael? Why did they push her off balcony so to speak?

    She’s the wife of Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen’s second cousin and son of her uncle Prince George of Kent who was killed in the war. My impression (probably via Granny, whose command of 20th-century royal minutiae was unparallelled) is that she’s always been regarded as a bit “off” and never very popular, perhaps owing to her exotic European (German/Czech/) ancestry and her father’s history as a Nazi cavalry officer in the War. (Strike 1.) She’s also a Roman Catholic whose first marriage to an English nobleman was annulled by the pope. (Strike 2.) Days later, she married Prince Michael of Kent.

    She’s widely regarded as a racist, and there is a history of encounters and incidents that seem to back this up, although I did get a bit of a chuckle once on hearing that she had named her two black sheep Venus and Serena Williams. I’m not sure, in and of itself, that’s evidence of ill-will or intent. But there are quite a few such stories, and in 2018 she was spotted on her way to meet Meghan Markle while wearing a large and ostentatious antique “blackamoor” brooch:

    Princess Michael of Kent with the blackamoor brooch

    She later apologized for causing offense, but, for good or ill, that was pretty much Strike 3.

    Thanks @ She.
    I wouldn’t blame her for the naming of the sheep, I’ve done similar 😁

    I named my first two goats Billy and Jean.  And I went by King.

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    I will say Suits got better after Markle left. I finished that series recently and it was quite good at the end.

    I didn’t know she started out as a Deal or No Deal suitcase girl. I need to go back and look closer at the meme of Meghan hearing what the Queen left her in her will. It’s a Deal suitcase with $5. Maybe it was even Meghan holding the case.

    She’s fits the epithet Ace used for Megyn Kelly, Me-Again.

     

    That’s the one.

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  27. Joseph Stanko Coolidge
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    @ She, what happened to Princess Michael? Why did they push her off balcony so to speak?

    She’s the wife of Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen’s second cousin and son of her uncle Prince George of Kent who was killed in the war. My impression (probably via Granny, whose command of 20th-century royal minutiae was unparallelled) is that she’s always been regarded as a bit “off” and never very popular, perhaps owing to her exotic European (German/Czech/) ancestry and her father’s history as a Nazi cavalry officer in the War. (Strike 1.) She’s also a Roman Catholic whose first marriage to an English nobleman was annulled by the pope. (Strike 2.) Days later, she married Prince Michael of Kent.

    She’s widely regarded as a racist, and there is a history of encounters and incidents that seem to back this up, although I did get a bit of a chuckle once on hearing that she had named her two black sheep Venus and Serena Williams. I’m not sure, in and of itself, that’s evidence of ill-will or intent. But there are quite a few such stories, and in 2018 she was spotted on her way to meet Meghan Markle while wearing a large and ostentatious antique “blackamoor” brooch:

    Princess Michael of Kent with the blackamoor brooch

    She later apologized for causing offense, but, for good or ill, that was pretty much Strike 3.

    Is it possible then that she is the source, the (exaggerated) small kernel of truth in Meghan’s accusations of racism in the royal family?

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  28. Flicker Coolidge
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    Joseph Stanko (View Comment):

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    @ She, what happened to Princess Michael? Why did they push her off balcony so to speak?

    She’s the wife of Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen’s second cousin and son of her uncle Prince George of Kent who was killed in the war. My impression (probably via Granny, whose command of 20th-century royal minutiae was unparallelled) is that she’s always been regarded as a bit “off” and never very popular, perhaps owing to her exotic European (German/Czech/) ancestry and her father’s history as a Nazi cavalry officer in the War. (Strike 1.) She’s also a Roman Catholic whose first marriage to an English nobleman was annulled by the pope. (Strike 2.) Days later, she married Prince Michael of Kent.

    She’s widely regarded as a racist, and there is a history of encounters and incidents that seem to back this up, although I did get a bit of a chuckle once on hearing that she had named her two black sheep Venus and Serena Williams. I’m not sure, in and of itself, that’s evidence of ill-will or intent. But there are quite a few such stories, and in 2018 she was spotted on her way to meet Meghan Markle while wearing a large and ostentatious antique “blackamoor” brooch:

    Princess Michael of Kent with the blackamoor brooch

    She later apologized for causing offense, but, for good or ill, that was pretty much Strike 3.

    Is it possible then that she is the source, the (exaggerated) small kernel of truth in Meghan’s accusations of racism in the royal family?

    Very possibly.  Nonetheless, I’m sure that brooch would be proudly worn by many Americans of African descent.  Lladro came out with statuary of blacks in various scenes and poses, and I’ve only ever seen them in black households.

    Princess Michael of Kent may be a racist, but there is nothing absolutely racist about the brooch.

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  29. She Member
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    Joseph Stanko (View Comment):

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    @ She, what happened to Princess Michael? Why did they push her off balcony so to speak?

    She’s the wife of Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen’s second cousin and son of her uncle Prince George of Kent who was killed in the war. My impression (probably via Granny, whose command of 20th-century royal minutiae was unparallelled) is that she’s always been regarded as a bit “off” and never very popular, perhaps owing to her exotic European (German/Czech/) ancestry and her father’s history as a Nazi cavalry officer in the War. (Strike 1.) She’s also a Roman Catholic whose first marriage to an English nobleman was annulled by the pope. (Strike 2.) Days later, she married Prince Michael of Kent.

    She’s widely regarded as a racist, and there is a history of encounters and incidents that seem to back this up, although I did get a bit of a chuckle once on hearing that she had named her two black sheep Venus and Serena Williams. I’m not sure, in and of itself, that’s evidence of ill-will or intent. But there are quite a few such stories, and in 2018 she was spotted on her way to meet Meghan Markle while wearing a large and ostentatious antique “blackamoor” brooch:

     

    She later apologized for causing offense, but, for good or ill, that was pretty much Strike 3.

    Is it possible then that she is the source, the (exaggerated) small kernel of truth in Meghan’s accusations of racism in the royal family?

    I think that’s quite possible, although Meghan seems to be a serial fabulist and fact-embroiderer of considerable proportions. (Among many other preposterous claims, that she and Harry were “married” in a private garden wedding some days before the official one was debunked by no less a personage than the Archbishop of Canterbury, and her claim that racists denied her children the titles of “prince” and “princess” because they didn’t want them to have adequate security is so absurd on its face that no-one who knows anything about how such things work gives it any credulity.)

    Less pleasantly, she seems now to be threatening the royal family with her “I can say anything I want to” and, “it takes a lot of effort to forgive them” for what they’re supposed to have done to her, statements in her most recent interviews.

    So the unpopular Princess Michael, and her history of questionable outbursts, may be a convenient place to land.  Which will leave Meghan explaining why she made such a meal out of the behavior of a royal most other royals don’t like and don’t socialize with, and one who’s been roundly condemned for some of the things she’s said over the decades. 

    Most of Meghan’s narrative has fallen apart, and much of it anymore falls on deaf ears, at least in the UK.  I don’t know what the fallout will be from the Queen’s death, but Markle has postponed her podcast for six weeks, and supposedly Harry’s book won’t come out now until next year.

    Then there’s Oprah, who’s gone all, “Bombshell interview? What bombshell interview??” and is claiming that she dearly hopes for peace and reconciliation between the fab four.  Thankfully, although modern memories can be short, most people do actually remember Oprah and her “shocked face” her and utter, open-mouthed, credulity at Meghan’s claims of racism, mental stress, inability to get help for suicidal ideation, willful neglect by her new relatives, and racism, racism, racism in the form of people asking what her unborn child’s skin color was going to be.  So many, at least in the UK, are calling Oprah out for her hypocrisy and opportunism, having been the one–as they say in the UK–who “lit the blue touch paper and retired.”

    I don’t know how it’s going to end up.  My own preference would be someone, perhaps Princess Anne (who doesn’t mince words) might sit the two of them down, explain the facts of life to them, and then drive them to the airport with a two one-way tickets, and put them on the plane back to California.

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  30. Percival Thatcher
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    @ She, what happened to Princess Michael? Why did they push her off balcony so to speak?

    She’s the wife of Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen’s second cousin and son of her uncle Prince George of Kent who was killed in the war. My impression (probably via Granny, whose command of 20th-century royal minutiae was unparallelled) is that she’s always been regarded as a bit “off” and never very popular, perhaps owing to her exotic European (German/Czech/) ancestry and her father’s history as a Nazi cavalry officer in the War. (Strike 1.) She’s also a Roman Catholic whose first marriage to an English nobleman was annulled by the pope. (Strike 2.) Days later, she married Prince Michael of Kent.

    She’s widely regarded as a racist, and there is a history of encounters and incidents that seem to back this up, although I did get a bit of a chuckle once on hearing that she had named her two black sheep Venus and Serena Williams. I’m not sure, in and of itself, that’s evidence of ill-will or intent. But there are quite a few such stories, and in 2018 she was spotted on her way to meet Meghan Markle while wearing a large and ostentatious antique “blackamoor” brooch:

     

    She later apologized for causing offense, but, for good or ill, that was pretty much Strike 3.

    Is it possible then that she is the source, the (exaggerated) small kernel of truth in Meghan’s accusations of racism in the royal family?

    I think that’s quite possible, although Meghan seems to be a serial fabulist and fact-embroiderer of considerable proportions. (Among many other preposterous claims, that she and Harry were “married” in a private garden wedding some days before the official one was debunked by no less a personage than the Archbishop of Canterbury, and her claim that racists denied her children the titles of “prince” and “princess” because they didn’t want them to have adequate security is so absurd on its face that no-one who knows anything about how such things work gives it any credulity.)

    Less pleasantly, she seems now to be threatening the royal family with her “I can say anything I want to” and, “it takes a lot of effort to forgive them” for what they’re supposed to have done to her, statements in her most recent interviews.

    So the unpopular Princess Michael, and her history of questionable outbursts, may be a convenient place to land. Which will leave Meghan explaining why she made such a meal out of the behavior of a royal most other royals don’t like and don’t socialize with, and one who’s been roundly condemned for some of the things she’s said over the decades.

    Most of Meghan’s narrative has fallen apart, and much of it anymore falls on deaf ears, at least in the UK. I don’t know what the fallout will be from the Queen’s death, but Markle has postponed her podcast for six weeks, and supposedly Harry’s book won’t come out now until next year.

    Then there’s Oprah, who’s gone all, “Bombshell interview? What bombshell interview??” and is claiming that she dearly hopes for peace and reconciliation between the fab four. Thankfully, although modern memories can be short, most people do actually remember Oprah and her “shocked face” her and utter, open-mouthed, credulity at Meghan’s claims of racism, mental stress, inability to get help for suicidal ideation, willful neglect by her new relatives, and racism, racism, racism in the form of people asking what her unborn child’s skin color was going to be. So many, at least in the UK, are calling Oprah out for her hypocrisy and opportunism, having been the one–as they say in the UK–who “lit the blue touch paper and retired.”

    I don’t know how it’s going to end up. My own preference would be someone, perhaps Princess Anne (who doesn’t mince words) might sit the two of them down, explain the facts of life to them, and then drive them to the airport with a two one-way tickets, and put them on the plane back to California.

    Someone mentioned John Oliver and something profoundly stupid he said lately and we decided that we could make a deal with the UK. We keep Meagain and Prince Doofus as long as they take Oliver back.

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