This was the headline, four months before Meghan married Harry: ‘Why I’m proud to be a Meghanomaniac… We need some Markle sparkle!’
Let’s quote the article: ‘The first time I knew I was in love was when Meghan used the term ‘my rescue puppies’ on prime time national television to describe her beloved dogs Guy and Bogart… Meghan Markle, OMG , even his initials are delicious: MMMMMM!’
The YOU magazine article continues about Harry: ‘Wow, he’s risen in our estimation! He has grown in height, eclipsing even his brother!, to become one half of a super couple that we hope will outshine even George and Amal. He has chosen a woman who has read every tome ever written by Toni Morrison. Now that’s class.
I wrote that piece. And this, on their wedding day, May 19, 2018, in the Mail: “You look incredible.” So Harry articulated as he looked up to drink from his girlfriend. He was echoing what every woman in the country was shouting at the screen as Meghan stepped out of her Rolls-Royce. The dress is simple: who needs decorations when you have that face?
Meghan Markle arrives at her wedding to Prince Harry at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, on May 19, 2018.
“You look amazing,” Harry mouthed as he looked up to drink from his girlfriend. Above: Meghan and Harry at St George’s Chapel on their wedding day
I had cooled down a bit, as any marriage does, in 2019. It was Bananagate, when Meghan, still a working royal, visited sex workers in Bristol, scribbling positive mantras on fruit. ‘Was he signing her autograph?’ I wrote. Would I get ink for the £1,500 Oscar de la Renta? No, Meghan. These women are not “loved”, they are not “special”. I would be even more amazed if, when I finished fixing up that “cottage” in Windsor… it opened its doors as a refuge instead. That would show these women that they are loved. That would show that they are special. Oh!
Meghan and Harry celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary today, and boy how times and public opinion have changed! Words among the millions posted jump off the page: ‘I’m not okay,’ ‘Silent or silenced?’, ‘Dog dish,’ ‘Near-catastrophic car chase,’ ‘We’re not a racist family.’ And so on. Please note that these are merely statements from the royal family itself, aside from America’s honorary queen Oprah, who formed a perfect O of surprise when Meghan accused the royal family of speculating about Archie’s skin color.
I’ve had a front row seat watching as opinion of the couple in the press (and overwhelmingly on social media) has plummeted. I have written many, many articles, trying to support her, swimming against a tide that resembles Devon’s now polluted sea. One of my most recent expressed my real concern that comments about X could lead to self-harm or even suicide. I don’t understand how a human being, if they read just a small part of the online abuse against Meghan, could survive such attacks. The comments are unrepeatable, but the most anodyne include highlighting, with arrows, the difference in the color of Meghan’s face compared to her scalp.
Of course, Meghan may be deaf: On the recent non-royal visit to Nigeria she wore a Cartier watch and backless, almost frontless dresses. She appeared to walk away from a woman mid-conversation. Rude!
The crowd and the sun made the happy couple shine as they waved to the crowd.
Crowds turned out in their thousands to witness this glorious day. Above: Meghan arriving at the ceremony
And Harry? Well, he never quite transformed into George Clooney, a sort of walking elder statesman with added testosterone (Harry still has his fans online; one post had a video of him taking off, in full combat gear, in his Apache helicopter to fight, You know, the real Taliban, along with last week’s pictures of William, in a suit and tie, were NEXT to a helicopter, receiving another gift (Army Air Corps chief colonel) from his dear father). Then William, of course, got on the plane and flew away, although that’s a small detail for Harry fans.
But today, which team am I on? The last six years have been a roller coaster, a series of disappointments, glimmers of hope. But I have to reveal (and I know I will now receive an avalanche of abuse; after my article begging people to stop bullying Meghan, there was an avalanche of posts on X, saying that I have “no moral guidance” and “I am a ex “broke”) that seeing Harry at St Paul’s, attending the service to celebrate 10 years of the Invictus Games, made me take his side, even though he has often allowed himself to look like a rudely dragged cash cow for a ring through his nose.
Seeing Harry at St Paul’s, attending the service to celebrate 10 years of the Invictus Games, made me take his side.
Harry smiled and blew kisses to his ‘loyal’ blood family, the Spencers. Above: Harry hugging his uncle Earl Spencer at St Paul’s
Meghan may be deaf: On the recent non-royal visit to Nigeria she wore a Cartier watch and backless, almost frontless dresses.
At the same time as Prince Harry’s service, King Charles held a garden party at Buckingham Palace.
Harry cut an elegant figure as he walked up the steps in a perfectly fitted suit. He smiled and blew kisses to his loyal ‘blood family’, the Spencers. What a happy, handsome, handsome group they are: a family, not a company. While at the same time, later on, King Charles hosted another somber garden party (along with the Duke of Edinburgh and Duchess of Gloucester) to which we humble subjects who can’t afford hats didn’t go. guests.
No wonder Meghan simply landed, like a dragonfly, at Heathrow on her way to Africa.
The Royal Family, without Catherine, has never looked so old, tired and, yes, downright boring, even though Camilla did her best stoically and uncomplainingly. I am reminded, not in a good way, of the quote from Bridget Jones’s Diary, spoken by purple-faced Julian: ‘The earrings measure just over a centimeter, in beautiful simulacrum gold. The exact replica of the ones she wore at Wimbledon in 1993 on her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent.
These royal satellites are, literally, a joke.
Recruiting Beatrice to inject some glamor and youth won’t help. We are not interested! Charles and William, be the greatest men. Give Harry and Meghan the best anniversary gift they can imagine. Welcome the firm’s biggest assets back.
