Other views: When Harry marries Meghan

Piers Morgan, Daily Mail:

“Thomas Markle admitted he was paid to do the pictures, telling TMZ he took the money to recast his image. ... This development will especially hurt Meghan because so many of her other family members have already behaved like the worst kind of vile, dysfunctional, money-grabbing misfits in the runup to her marriage. Her estranged half brother Thomas Jr. even recently published a handwritten letter he sent to Prince Harry urging him to ditch his sister. ... By taking the paparazzi shilling, and now missing the wedding, Thomas Markle broke his future son-in-law’s trust, and his little girl’s heart.”

Zoe Williams, The Guardian:

“For Meghan herself, this is like the honeymoon period of an abusive relationship. At the moment, she is princess of all hearts and can do no wrong; nobody would be so coarse as to print a picture of her at the gym, or reading a how-to on the correct usage of British titles. Yet the terms have been set: Everything you do, they know about it. ... Everything your relatives do, they have caught on camera. It’s rosy now, sunshine, but wait until they’re bored five years down the line and they find out that you once shouted at a maid; or were spotted in John Lewis looking at buggies; or went to a club without your husband and didn’t get home till five past 12.”

Micheline Maynard, Australian Broadcasting Corp. News:

“Meghan will marry her prince at a time when the world is divided about almost everything, including her. Unwittingly, that makes her the perfect royal bride for our times.”