I understand being uncompelled by Meghan Markle's experiences with royals

[Hekate]

102. I wasn't going to watch, but after reading the NYT review that popped up on my pad, plus DU...

...I tuned in for the last hour, and now plan to watch the whole thing.

I don’t discount the racism she experienced in the family at all, and thank you for your post. Regarding public reaction (ie, outside the palace), well, once again Rupert Murdoch’s rags play a part in keeping the average joe stupid.

But what struck me most of all was the functional/dysfunctional family system with an apparent emotional register of zero Kelvin. Remember when Diana wanted to kill herself? She was dismissed in the media as being too young for the job, too emotionally frail, already broken by her mother absconding, etc. Meghan, otoh, is at least a decade older than Diana was, a self-assured career woman, happy in her adult life and choices — and she wanted to die. wtf.

Something is really wrong inside that family, as a family, and I include all the many servants and functionaries it takes to maintain their enormous properties. To remain there in the modern era means you have to be a believer in the traditional class system, and Meghan was nowhere in that world: foreign, from a family of very modest means, of mixed-race, the list just goes on. Meghan “bullying the servants”? Why do I think it was the servants giving the interloper the cold shoulder?

Kate, Charles’ wife, was originally from a “common” family, but they made a fortune for themselves, and royalty has always appreciated that. I mean, money is really useful. So much the better if they are British and C of E; white is just assumed. Plus the “right” accent— your accent will peg you for life in that little world.

Sorry if I’m rambling on, but I’m trying to work this out. I’ll end as I began: thanks for your good post.