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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 16:38:45 GMT
divorced, mixed race, American and Catholic Well really, the rest I can take but an American? And she's a woman! How more diverse can you go? |
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Post by kathryn on Nov 28, 2017 16:59:38 GMT
divorced, mixed race, American and Catholic Well really, the rest I can take but an American? And she's a woman! How more diverse can you go? Arguably if she was a man that would be more diverse! Now that really would set a precedent! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 17:06:33 GMT
We'll be Trooping The Color and receiving New Year's Honors before you know it. Over my dead body. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 17:42:41 GMT
And she's a woman! How more diverse can you go? Arguably if she was a man that would be more diverse! Now that really would set a precedent! Oh, if only one of those boys had married a man. How great would that be? |
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Post by hulmeman on Nov 28, 2017 18:43:07 GMT
Apparently Harry had made it clear he doesn't want the usual fruitcake at the reception but Prince Philip says he's going anyway.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 28, 2017 19:32:48 GMT
How are they going to keep Fergie-Yorkie-Fergie away from this one? Send her on “holiday” again? I suppose the daughters will be allowed to go... remember that hat?  |
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Post by sherriebythesea on Nov 29, 2017 2:12:13 GMT
Now she picked a novel way of escaping President (throw up in mouth a bit) Trump
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 14, 2018 20:39:32 GMT
Well this is turning into a train crash isn’t it?
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Post by dontdreamit on May 14, 2018 20:46:01 GMT
Well this is turning into a train crash isn’t it? I do like a royal wedding, but it’s a bit of a mess! I wonder if he really did have a heart attack or not... I give the press less than 24 hours until they find out the details (or not). You’ve got to feel sorry for her, I know she chose to marry Harry but I don’t think she realised quite the circus it would turn into. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 14, 2018 21:16:51 GMT
What a horrible way to start a marriage, the poor girl. What with the sisters and the father all trying to cash in, her family sound hideous. I gather Mum is the exception, if so then she should walk her daughter down the aisle. That would make a positive statement in lots of ways.
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Post by theatreian on May 14, 2018 21:18:40 GMT
Yes I feel really sorry for Meghan. She won't be able to comment on any of this either.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2018 6:08:19 GMT
I think the press is trying to sabotage the wedding. Slebs set up photo shoots all the time and it doesn’t get leaked. If someone offered you £100,000 for a few photos what would you say?
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Post by kathryn on May 15, 2018 12:53:15 GMT
I think the press is trying to sabotage the wedding. Slebs set up photo shoots all the time and it doesn’t get leaked. If someone offered you £100,000 for a few photos what would you say? Well of course the press want it to turn into a car crash! Though I'm not sure that slebs really do stage pap photos 'all the time' - I know that's what the gossip sites tell us (and it's convenient for their audience to believe that as it absolves them of complicity in press intrusion), but this is a case in point of why it's a silly thing to do! You are bound to get found out and look really stupid. (I mean, yes, clearly there's a bunch of reality TV 'stars' who do make their living from this kind of stuff - but then their 'life' is their product so it's all part of the game.) |
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Post by Steve on May 15, 2018 13:51:32 GMT
I feel sorry for Thomas Markle. Impecunious, living in isolation and ill health in a small Mexican town, he is loved enough to be invited to give away his daughter, but has never been introduced to the man he must give her to. Informed by his other daughter that he looks shabby and silly in pap photos, advised by her to let himself be fake "papped" in smart suits to improve his image, he is now humiliated for harmlessly accepting money for allowing those pictures of himself to be taken. Presumably a dastardly royal courtier, who looks just like Pip Torrens, is behind this mess: of the bride's father being kept at arm's distance from his future son-in-law until he meets him at the altar, but really, this poor man!  |
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Post by Snciole on May 15, 2018 15:23:10 GMT
As a fellow sexy mixed race woman (shut up at the back) it will be a cold day in hell before I invite my father to anything. She clearly loves Thomas. I haven't seen anything to suggest he has ever been a bad father but he is just not as sexy and well presented as her mother (who, mark my words, will steal the show on Saturday)
I suspect he is a man who enjoys his own company and even if Harry were just some random man she would struggle to introduce them. He has been naive and for a man who worked in the media for so long I am surprised he has been made to look a fool like this.
I do wonder who really set him up? Doria? Samantha? Real life Pip Torrens?
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Post by TallPaul on May 15, 2018 15:32:11 GMT
In my limited experience, the best way to deal with 'problematic' relatives at a wedding is to give them a role.
Although giving his daughter away is one role, albeit a rather old-fashioned one, as a former DoP, Megan's father should clearly have put in charge of the video!
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2018 15:55:40 GMT
Tsk. That's what you get for letting Americans marry into the family. If she starts talking about her fanny pack I shall have no option but to begin a petition to have her banished to the Falklands.  |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 15, 2018 15:56:04 GMT
The Palace should have been all over this though. He’s been left to his own devices when he should have been in this country weeks ago, being briefed, kitted out for the day, shown the ropes and more importantly protected from the press and the influence of other family members who *shock horror* may not have Meghan’s best interests at heart.
But as usual they’ve done the usual arrogant thing where they expect everybody to just know what to do instinctively and then act all offended when it goes tits up. The fact that Harry has never even met the man speaks volumes.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2018 16:01:38 GMT
The Palace should have been all over this though. He’s been left to his own devices when he should have been in this country weeks ago, being briefed, kitted out for the day, shown the ropes and more importantly protected from the press and the influence of other family members who *shock horror* may not have Meghan’s best interests at heart. But as usual they’ve done the usual arrogant thing where they expect everybody to just know what to do instinctively and then act all offended when it goes tits up. The fact that Harry has never even met the man speaks volumes. I don't think the Palace machine can be blamed for Harry never having met Meghan's father or be responsible for protecting him from his own family though. |
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Post by lynette on May 15, 2018 16:03:19 GMT
I agree to a certain extent there BB. Saying hi to your father in law on the steps of St George's Chapel on Saturday seems a bit 'off'. 😂
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Post by kathryn on May 15, 2018 16:13:12 GMT
The Palace should have been all over this though. He’s been left to his own devices when he should have been in this country weeks ago, being briefed, kitted out for the day, shown the ropes and more importantly protected from the press and the influence of other family members who *shock horror* may not have Meghan’s best interests at heart. But as usual they’ve done the usual arrogant thing where they expect everybody to just know what to do instinctively and then act all offended when it goes tits up. The fact that Harry has never even met the man speaks volumes. I don't think the Palace machine can be blamed for Harry never having met Meghan's father or be responsible for protecting him from his own family though. Yes, they can't really control what the bride's family decides to do - and it may be that he resisted being briefed/kitted out, let alone 'protected' from his own family. I wouldn't presume to guess why Harry has never met him (assuming that is actually true - I don't know what the source for that is) but it's generally the child of a parent who decides when their other-half should meet them. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 15, 2018 16:32:26 GMT
Well I think if you want to give your daughter away to a Prince, which will be as big a news story in the U.S as it is here, you should be prepared for a bit of briefing and kitting out. And yes, protecting from the step sisters who’ve been putting the boot in for ages.
Badly handled!
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Post by kathryn on May 15, 2018 16:40:12 GMT
Yes, badly handled, it's true.
On the other hand it's not the first time the Royals have dealt with an embarrassing extended family in a royal spouse, so I am sure they can cope, and he'll be persuaded not to let embarrassment keep him away from his daughter's wedding day. Tomorrow's chip paper, and all that.
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Post by david on May 15, 2018 17:16:53 GMT
Has anybody had their invite yet? Just got back from work and still nothing through the post!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 15, 2018 17:49:08 GMT
I turned it down. Seeing Chess.
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