It’s insulting to say Harry and Wills are dim dolts who can’t think for themselves
HeR waxwork is installed in madame Tussauds, her face is etched on the coins and imprinted on the tea towels. For meghan markle, for better or for worse, there is no going back now.
in just over a week, the former actress from california will become the duchess of . . . what? Sussex? clarence? creme de La mer? no one knows for sure.
What is certain is that after the wedding ceremony in Windsor, she will ride off to her future in a gilded coach, a handsome prince at her side, a new life unfurling before her like a golden ribbon.
Will she breathe a sigh of relief once that Windsor knot has been tied?
certainly, despite all the cinderella trappings, it hasn’t been much of a fairytale so far.
Old lives have a nasty habit of encroaching on new lives; the dread spectre of the past a-gorging at the wedding feast.
And in meghan’s case, there has been no shortage of attempts to sabotage her big day.
The poor girl seems to have more than her fair share of aggrieved friends and relatives harvesting their own bitter crop of gossipy meghanalia, determined to do her down.
it would be embarrassing for any bride to have this banquet of juicy tattle laid before her prospective inlaws. Yet as awkward as this may be, perhaps meghan will take consolation in the fact that the Windsors are absolute world-beaters when it comes to in-house dirty laundry.
indeed, in the great laundromat of disgrace, the royals have dabbled in everything from flogging off official gifts to Squidgygate and Toe-Gate to cherry Brandy Gate via tax havens, bribes, mistresses, love children, and nobody mention naked billiards or even, um, the nazi fancy-dress outfit.
APART from a few regrettable dates, what has St megz done? nothing as embarrassing as her future husband’s youthful indiscretions, that’s for sure. nothing to startle the horses.
even if she had, protocol no longer demands that royal brides be meek, virginal Protestants without a past — ability to look good in tweeds and wear hats a bonus.
And anyway, who among us could stand up to this level of scrutiny and emerge without a stain?
Shake the snow globe of any modern adult’s life and at least a few flecks of quiet disgrace will come floating down.
A former boyfriend of meghan’s has a porn past?
A former boyfriend of mine has joined the SnP, and i think we all know which is the greater embarrassment.
in the long run, none of this froth damages meghan markle. But what does drive me insane is the endless, weary insistence by some that she is on the make; an unfeeling schemer who had long plotted to marry Harry before she even met him.
She was photographed outside Buckingham Palace when she was just a kid! So it must be true.
The same kind of noxious conjecture was also applied to the duchess of cambridge. For some, she was the chilling Waity Katy, a cold-eyed conniver who applied to study at the same university as Prince William because she wanted to ‘snare’ him.
it is pathetic, sexist and exhausting but it won’t go away.
not only is this gold-digging theory patently untrue and demeaning to both women, it is also insulting towards the princes.
What are William and Harry? A couple of dim-bulb dolts incapable of thinking for themselves whenever a pretty girl crosses their path? defenceless baby-boy turtles scrambling for the safety of the sea, only to be picked off on the beach by a brace of carrion with excellent blowdrys and devious smiles?
call me old-fashioned, yes, call me naive, but i believe in true love and also that it truly is a love-match for both couples.
You could not mistake the electric sparkle between Harry and meghan during those filmed interviews on the day their engagement was announced. it was there, too, when William and Kate left hospital after the recent birth of Prince Louis.
They are a less demonstrative, more controlled couple than meghan and Harry, schooled in the discipline of public appearances. Yet there was something in the way William reached back to take his wife’s hand as they walked towards the car that was tender and touching. And real.
As young men about town, William and Harry could, and probably did, have their pick of any number of agreeable and fruity young women.
Actresses, starlets, singers and society darlings, plus no end of Honoria Glossops and Stiffy Byngs from Totleigh Towers — i imagine they were all ready to fall like frisky skittles under the ermine aphrodisiac of their royal spell.
Yet somehow, amazingly, each found a singular, strong young woman brave enough to take on a prince.
Kate has become a mum of steel, a devoted duchess, a companion of honour in the best possible way.
meanwhile, meghan hasn’t just put Harry on a diet, she has made him look happy and erased that lonely, wayward air that used to cling to him.
despite the best efforts of the malcontents — and it is asking a lot — i am quite sure she will become a terrific duchess.