Did anyone watch it?
Printable View
Did anyone watch it?
Nope but I wish I did. Good for them for speaking their minds.
Didn't realize the Royals were so stingy!
You can still watch it on the internet.
https://www.cbs.com/shows/oprah-with...etime-special/
I didn't either. I was also surprised at how backwards they are, especially on race.
I’m surprised that I’m surprised. I bet people of color aren’t at surprised. Apparently, this is called old world racism. Crazy how much social structure is based on melatonin. If aliens came to planet earth they’d be like, “ok looks like there’s no intelligent life here.
I'm finishing the ending of it up now. I feel bad for her. Her half sister and father spoke out to the public which is an eye roll. The half-sister is just trying to cash in on her like toxic family in the public eye does. Who releases a book about you if they actually care about you?
I wasn’t surprised by anything she said. I am a reformed royal junkie though and know WAY too much about these random people. Example, 2 of prince Phillip’s sisters were married to nazis, lived with them in fact. I was more surprised they even let them get married in the first place.
Because of this weird interest in them I saw the crap coverage that all of the trashy media gave Meghan while it was happening. They are vicious. Best example is piers Morgan. Everyone should watch the clip of him quitting good morning Britain, after he was called out on his obsession of trashing her.
Also been funny watching Ben sharpiro and his like defending the monarchy. I’m sure many American Conservatives defending the monarchy do not have a good grip on theory or history or their values.
I do think Meghan was totally lying about her knowledge and interest in media about the royals. She totally researched and then read every article on herself after she was involved.
I do agree about her researching and reading about herself but people don't know how a situation is really going to turn out until they experience it.
Obviously it's not the same whatsoever, but when I entered my sorority in the way past I was focused on fun/sisterhood and my perception of what it would be like....not all the BS requirements. I was ready to GTFO after that year and stopped showing up near the end. I hated getting dressed up in required business attire to the meetings when I had actual important schoolwork/studying to do that night on a quarter schedule.
Well so many layers to the story.
No doubt she’s probably experienced discrimination. Human nature to be less accepting to the “different” “outsider”. A bit pathological to be so obsessive on race though.
Megan is very intelligent and she knows how to parlay this situation into something that will be of benefit to her.
That whole “institution” (including her) is very savvy and self preserving.
Anywho cute baby though.....
This has blown up way more than expected.
Didn't she say in the interview that they protected and lied for other royal family members and they never protected Archie or her as well? I'm thinking it's Prince Andrew. If I was her and mad for being treated different, I'd throw my side of the story right back out in the media too.
There is the American reaction and the British and Commonwealth reaction to Megan. The consensus is that she is FOS. She sits down for an "interview" not with a journalist but with the richest WOC in the world with whom she has business ties. This has opportunism written all over it.
The Queen is no dummy. She presides over a country with a lot of Africans, Asians and Caribbean people and a Commonwealth of over 2 billion , most of whom are non-white.
Archie did not get a title because it is optional for grandchildren ( Princess Anne's children have none ) and no great-grandchildren out of the direct line of succession get them. If somebody made a tasteless remark about Archie's complexion then why doesn't Megan name the person ? She's afraid of burning her bridges ? She doesn't want to offend ? Or maybe she just made it up ?
I was always glad for Megan. I thought she and Harry had found true love and I wished them a long and happy marriage. If she didn't like living in the fishbowl then leaving for Caliphonia was just the thing to do.
The remark about her baby's skin color wasn't made to her. It was made to her husband.
So what ? She knows who said it doesn't she ?
Prior to the wedding all we heard was how the Royal family welcomed Megan. Warily perhaps but that was supposedly based on doubts or concerns about her ability and willingness to behave in certain ways. Marrying into the family means accepting that obligations and duties go with the pampering.
Yeah you are describing colonialism, “presiding” doesn’t mean there aren’t racist notions in that system. Maybe you think colonialism was a good thing but I and many disagree. It is hard not to have prejudice against non whites when you benefit from years of domination and assimilation at the expense of those colonized.
If she was miserable, then she's entitled to leave and Prince Harry is entitled to go with her, if that's what he'd prefer to do.
When have I or the Queen ever spoken in favor of colonialism ? Although I think most Hong Kong residents would LOVE to go back to being a British colony.
Do you even know what the Commonwealth is ? Most former British colonies went independent starting after
W.W. II.
I do, do you?
1962-Jamaica
1963-Kenya
1970-Fiji
1981-Belize
1982/1997(fully)-Hong Kong
1984-Brunei
And yeah they started pulling out after WW2 because they were broke, and left many of their former colonies with the debt they had racked up. The royal family greatly personally benefited from that, and the years of exploitation before.
Also in the 80's was when those in the commonwealth disconnected constitutionally from Britain. This isn't ancient history.
Why would someone who represents colonialism need to announce that they benefit from it? Their existence/wealth/power are proof...
I LOVE Meghan but I also agree 100%. Even when you watch her interviews from way before she met Harry, she's obviously highly intelligent and perceptive and image-conscious and media-savvy and I have a very hard time believing that 1.) she didn't do a lot of research before their marriage(or even engagement) and 2.) that she didn't keep up with the press. How could the negative media be so constantly crushing to her to where she was suicidal if she was barely paying attention to it? She kept saying in the interview that it was her friends on the outside letting her know how bad it was, and at the one point when she mentioned looking at the pictures from the opera event she made sure to mention 'offhandedly' that she was looking at them because a 'friend sent them to her'. Which maybe a friend did send them to her, but if her friends have no problem sending her media about herself I think that says a lot.
I think she was very calculated with how she came across in the interview but I ain't mad at her. Any public figure with half a brain in their head should be pretty concerned with making sure they come across well and would do a lot of pre-planning. And I do believe that her life as a royal was a nightmare, I think the media and the firm/institution/whatever villainized her to distract people from Prince Andrew.
This is very confusing.
He was expected to have some sort of title(not 'Prince' since he's the Queen's great-grandchild and not directly in the line of succession):
royal watchers had predicted that the infant would become Earl of Dumbarton, which is one of Prince Harry's secondary titles. His and Meghan's kids would've been eligible to become Lady or Lord, but it seems like they've opted out.
And then, unless Meghan and Harry wanted otherwise he would have become a prince when Charles became king:
Royal reporters point out that it's still possible Archie could become a prince when Prince Charles becomes king, but that's only if Meghan and Harry allow it.
Royal correspondent Victoria Murphy tweeted after the child's name was announced: "It's worth remembering that when Prince Charles becomes king, Archie will be eligible to be styled as a Prince should Harry and Meghan wish this."
Meghan and Harry did say that he was supposed to have a title(according to experts he was) and that the media kept putting it out that it was their idea for him to not have one(the media did report this). No Queen Elizabeth II isn't a "dummy", but she's also almost a hundred and Harry alluded to how much power and influence the people behind-the-scenes actually have over the royals.
This is another way where I see the royal family as being very backward. They're not willing to acknowledge mental health issues. They seem to think it's all about "character" and "keeping a stiff upper lip". They don't seem to understand that different people can be affected in different ways, especially someone from another country with a very different culture.
^^^It's not surprising, they are literally relics from another time. The Queen and Charles are old as fuck and raised during a very different era and in an extremely abnormal environment. Like, they can't relate to anything else.
I'm thinking the Racist dude is probably Charles. He's the one Harry would have contacted first since he's his father. It doesn't look like it was the Queen, not with the statement she made. Or Prince Andrew. Whoever it was, it was someone less than the Queen. The Queen probably loves her Great Grandson. Most Great Granma's do.
I don't think they have any idea of how regular people live. I like how this repressed peasant tells the king how absurd the monarchy is, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw
My money is on Princess Michael of Kent, married to the Queen’s first cousin. She is the one who told a group of black people that she would send them back to the colonies for being loud in her presence, had 2 black sheep named Venus and Serena and famously wore a racist brooch for Meghan’s first Christmas with the Windsors.
There are plenty of other options though.