I tried, I really did. I had invested a lot in our relationship. Years! Yes, I had missed countless red flags. After all, I am loyal. She is a woman. Someone I considered self-made, outspoken, a little broken, humiliated, ridiculed and bullied by social and mainstream media.
But now? I can’t ignore that red dress It was Meghan’s red carpet appearance at the Children’s Hospital Gala in Los Angeles this weekend that finally made the scales fall from my eyes.
Yes, I suddenly felt secondhand embarrassment when I saw those photographs. And once you have that feeling, you can’t go back.
Previously, I praised Meghan’s wedding dresses: both of them. He applauded his love for dogs and all animals, a conviction he maintained despite belonging to a family that loves to shoot things.
From duchess to D-list, Meghan’s customization of a Carolina Herrera dress for a children’s hospital gala came across as tacky and attention-grabbing.
Sporting her original train and showing less flesh (plus a tighter shiny hairstyle), the Duchess of Sussex epitomized the look when she wore the same dress in 2021.
I adored his bravery in taking on a powerful dynasty and his honesty in not being able to bear cutting ribbons in some horribly wind-swept new factory in Leicester.
Girl, we hear you! As an aspiring Hollywood actress, you know the meaning of hard, thankless work – you’re one of us! You talk about things that are difficult to accept or even believe, or that bore you to death. Self-care, not sacrifice? I love it!
But at that charity gala I realized that it was starting to sound false. Meghan, it’s you, not me.
I’m sorry to tell you that in that ill-fitting dress you didn’t look like real royalty: you looked diminished. That’s when I realized that what you represent now is also very small: Meghan went from duchess to D-list.
Her height has not grown over her years in the public eye, but has shrunk, as if she had been subjected to a hot wash. Only his eyebrows have grown.
Compare the photo of Meghan in the minimalist version of the Carolina Herrera dress from this weekend with the first time she wore it, in 2021, with Harry.
Then he had a magnificent tail that he inexplicably decided to take off. And back then she also retained that royal shine: her hair was up, not loose or disheveled.
The slit of the dress was also a poor choice, as it made having to kneel to talk to small children uncomfortable, to put it politely.
As a duchess, or even a minor celebrity, you really have to think about these things.
I know I’m not the only one who sees Meghan now as the rather decadent Hollywood celebrity that she is. Dear God, even that bastion of uncritical and boring American wholesomeness, InStyle magazine, just called Meghan a “marmalade entrepreneur.” Oh! That must hurt.
Leaning down to meet young Ella Nelson at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Gala on Saturday showed why it’s unwise to wear a split dress on such occasions.
Holding hands with her friend Kelly McKee Zajfen at the event, Meghan looked like a washed-up celebrity rather than the strong, principled woman Liz Jones has always admired.
For an event dedicated to helping kids (even her red carpet platitudes like ‘mom’ didn’t sound genuine: she said all her friends from high school are becoming moms; since they’re mostly in their 40s, surely this It happened a long time ago.) ago), the dress code should have been modest, not Look at Me.
The red dress and her desperate smile were reminiscent of her Deal Or No Deal days, when she was the “briefcase girl” on the TV show. I kept thinking: ‘Where is the briefcase?’
And yes, I thought, hmmmm, Catherine would have been covered in something lovely, loose and flowy. Being so exposed is unforgivable. It was neither the time nor the place for meat.
Also, the grip of other ‘attendants’ and the whispers. She’s like the loud, rebellious friend who shows up at your bachelorette party thinking it’s all about her, not the bride-to-be, and ends up falling into the pool.
It was all a bit vulgar.
And what is the reason for this obsession with the red carpet?
Most real stars will tell you that a red carpet is something to be endured and escaped as soon as possible (I’ve been in fashion pens at the Baftas and the Oscars, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve worn eyes rolling back). shared with the likes of Livia Firth and Helena Bonham Carter, the conspiratorial cries of anguish of “My feet hurt!” Don’t keep running up and down! The red carpet is a portal, a pain made for the paparazzi. It is not an achievement or even a destiny.
I had high hopes for Meghan, but now I feel stupid.
I mean brotherhood. Women who work hard. Who is speaking. I defended Meghan when she spoke of wanting to end her own life as others joined in, saying: “She looked perfectly cheerful at the Royal Albert Hall.” I’ve been suicidal, but I still smiled for the camera, showed up, and did my job.
But now? I’m done. Meghan, you are abandoned. If I knew how to block you, I would do it too.