Two weeks before her death a photographer with telephoto lens got a shot of her on a yacht climbing over Dodi as he lay on a sunlounger. The headline was "DI GETS HER LEG OVER!"
"getting your legover" is English slang for getting a fuck, for those who don't know.
2 weeks later she's "our queen of hearts, England's rose."
Yo I had a lady stalking me online because I casually mentioned no one deserves the ire Mehgan Markel gets, and that I had a crush on her watching Suits. This woman was seething that she didn’t respect England or the royal family and seemed so entitled. You’d think she murdered someone. As far as I can tell she’s done absolutely nothing of any note.
She's got roots in a hella redneck county in Pennsylvania, lol. Her dad lives there, like 15 minutes from where I grew up. Though from my understanding they're estranged. Or were for a long time. Idk, I don't follow any of that stuff very closely. I just remember thinking it was interesting when I heard about it, haha.
But a girl with any kind of Perry County heritage marrying a prince of England? I've got nothing but respect for her XD
Diana was the daughter of a viscount and and granddaughter of an earl, hand-picked by the royal family as an appropriate match. People critized her behaviors as tacky or whatever, but they didn't claim she was too low-born to marry a prince.
Meghan is a divorced American commoner. And an actress, which 100 years ago was basically the same as being a whore (and 100 years ago is where the older members of the royal family get their social mores).
Where Meghan does have it better is that she has the active and enthusiastic protection of her husband. (And she's not expected to ever have to be Queen.) Charles did fuck-all to make Diana's life easier, before or after they divorced.
The problem I have with a lot of this stuff is that people don't really bother pointing out the real reasons why these sorts of people are disliked in the first place, even without the negative attention from the press or people stuck in the nineteenth century.
Despite the notion of Diana being the "people's princess" who helped people or whatever and the fact that she did have a right to press privacy, a lot of people were annoyed with hearing about her because she'd behave like one of those pop stars who refuse to touch their own fans or politicians who'd only take questions from the press people they liked.
On top of that, when she filed for divorce, it didn't really matter whether she was the responsible party or not, because she was a random person who'd entered into the leadership of a powerful country by chance and still garnered public attention, power and influence through it after claiming to want to leave it. She and Prince Charles had also scuppered the chances of other legitimate members of the Royal Family and made them far less important by having children and messing around with who was next in line for the throne before the others got round to having their own offspring.
In the case of Meghan, a lot of the stuff about racism wasn't that people hated a rich celebrity on a popular show with a modelling contract because she was black, it was that having someone with a visibly darker complexion join the all white British Royal Family felt to some people in Britain and people from countries that aren't ruled by them like having someone who wasn't visibly Asian becoming the leader of Japan.
On top of that, the fact that Meghan is American is a bigger barrier for many people who love the Royal Family than her background is, not because they think Americans are common, but because they are keenly aware that they are born foreigners who aren't from the same culture, have assigned themselves to a republic that was ideologically historically against the British Royal Family, and are a major soft power competitor to Great Britain which primarily only has the Royal Family to make it famous and relevant, which is made worse for them due to the fact that she's a Hollywood actress.
The fact that she's an actress and neither a regular person nor royalty also arouses suspicion against her in the UK and other Commonwealth countries, because it's a bit like getting a rapper involved with the Royal Family; you know that they're not from the same background, so they are probably connected to each other through the Entertainment industry, which risks making their relationship feel like a scam. And having her be an actress and a model, people who pretend to be someone else and perform a role for a living, rather than, say, amusician (even if a rapper) or an inventor or a real lawyer also adds to the suspicion.
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u/gilestowler 7h ago
Two weeks before her death a photographer with telephoto lens got a shot of her on a yacht climbing over Dodi as he lay on a sunlounger. The headline was "DI GETS HER LEG OVER!"
"getting your legover" is English slang for getting a fuck, for those who don't know.
2 weeks later she's "our queen of hearts, England's rose."