Here we go… again. Harry and Meghan have announced, according to Entertainment Weekly, that they are ‘quitting’ social media. *insert eye roll here* There’s what I struggle to understand. Here’s a couple who have said, “We’re not coping. Give us privacy”. But, they’ve hired private jets to head to an event where they take photos of them doing ‘charitable deeds’ for ten minutes before heading back to their Santa Barbara digs.
After all the stunts these two have pulled over the last three years, I’ve gotten to the point where everything they do pisses me off. I’m not a big follower of the royal family, but I enjoy seeing how much bigger of a hole Harry and Meghan drop themselves into. Unfortunately, as cruel as that might sound, they have only bought into the hatred that social media brings with it.
The Sussexes, if they can still call themselves that in March, are bringing the negative press on by doing things that don’t concern them. For example, they went to a preschool in LA last year on the anniversary of Princess Diana’s death and planted flowers. This wouldn’t have been an issue if the parents had been informed of their visit beforehand. Secondly, the kids had no idea who they were. Finally, to have a photographer taking photos without the parent’s consent is not on.
After searching Google, I came across a post from the parenting blog Cafe Mom, which had written some parents of their children weren’t happy. One mother posted the following to Twitter:
I could not even hold my daughter’s hand and take her into school last week when she started kindergarten. These two just ‘turn up and break the rules’ whenever they feel like it?
Jill Harris on Twitter
Meghan’s Great White Lie
In one of Meghan’s word salad speeches last year, she claimed to have not used social media in years. She even claimed that people obsessed with it are ‘addicts’. Girl, preach your garbage elsewhere. You endorsed a woman who was running a Twitter account that was trashing your husband’s family. Remember them? The royals who welcomed you with open arms and gave you everything you could have ever wanted? No? Well, you have a concise memory.
Now, in the speech I mentioned, not only did people claim she plagiarised the whole thing from a Netflix doco, but something felt real off about it. That’s when I remembered. On the Sussex Royal Instagram account, some posts have American spelling. Here’s a series of screenshots. The Americanisms is underlined:
At the bottom of the screenshot, I’ve left the dates the original posts were published. April 2019. A few weeks before the birth of Master Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. The Sussexes’ last Instagram post was published on their previous day as ‘senior’ royals on March 31 2020. I won’t post the actual post because the date doesn’t come up unless you’re on the platform.
Also, there have been rumours that at one point, Meghan re-activated her private Instagram account for a short time before shutting it down again, according to Vogue Australia in December 2018.
Do I personally believe she operated the Sussex Royal account? Yes, I do. If a Royal PR team had been charged with the account, the content would’ve been restricted.
Social Media Addiction Is Something Meghan Suffered From During Her Pre-Royal Days
Despite what she said in her speech about social media addiction, she forgot what she wrote on her former blog, The Tig. In her 2014 Year in Review post, she wrote the following:
It was just May and I was sitting with butterflies in my stomach, coercing my finger to press the send button on twitter. It was time for me to say that this website, this passion project, this thing called The Tig, was going live.
Meghan Markle on beginning The Tig and using Twitter to promote it
If you look at The Tig archives, many of its pages that are still active, there are links to, you guessed it, social media pages for the blog. I, unfortunately, can’t get access to those old accounts or her personal ones, but I did find these two videos that were posted to Twitter in 2019 from an interview she did about her blog in 2014.
She says she used Twitter to give food or fashion advice before starting The Tig. However, she lied during the interview when she did all the site photography. There are credits all over the pages that are still available of a photographer’s name, not Meghan’s.
Some of her selfies can be found when you search for them on Google.
Cyberbullied
Aside from what she says in the interview, she could have changed her attitude towards social media in the seven years since the blog launched. According to the publication Complex, the former senior royal got cyberbullied with racist attacks.
First off, I wanted to bring up something I mentioned before. Meghan and Harry supported a royal family troll who supported them and donated money to one of their charities. Did they know about the trolling? Who knows. But they would be stupid if they didn’t.
Secondly, Meghan makes the situation as if she is the only person to be bullied online. I’ve been trolled but not to the same extent. Not to mention, people have been targeted so severely that they’ve committed suicide. Look at model Charlotte Dawson. She confronted a few of her trolls, and after a while, it got too much for her, and she ended her life. No one should feel like their life doesn’t matter when everyone has a purpose.
Bullying is wrong; there’s no doubting that. But making a situation like this about just you, not other people, is incorrect. Yes, racist trolls did target Meghan and want to incite violence. I’m afraid that’s not right at all. People who do this love making people feel worse about their lives when they [the trolls] probably sit behind their keyboards, thinking their targets will bend to their demands.
Trolls are unstable bigots that have no lives. They pick on people they don’t know to make themselves feel better. They shouldn’t use racist slurs or violent emojis to target a woman who is heavily pregnant.
Why Prince Harry Has No Right To Address Such A Serious Topic
Harry jumps on whatever bandwagon his wife does. It’s like he hasn’t got a voice of his own. Sure, he allegedly had a secret Instagram account when they were dating, but how many people knew about it? Very few until it was made public YEARS later.
Here is a man who wasn’t raised around social media. Instead, for years he shared the Kensington Palace accounts with his brother, Prince William and his sister-in-law, Catherine.
When he and Meghan got engaged, the four shared them until they started up Sussex Royal. They thought it would allow them to contort the narrative to their wants. However, when the Sussex Instagram account broke records, the prince wanted nothing to do with social media, despite having little to do with it anyway, according to Grazia Daily. Pick a side, man!
For someone who has very little to do with a platform he barely knows anything about, Harry shouldn’t be commenting on topics like this. However, it’s long been speculated that he reads the comments about himself online to see what people say if the biography, Finding Freedom, co-written by Omid Scobie, is any indication via Marie Claire. Double standards much?
If Harry wanted to present himself and Meghan in a positive light, he would’ve stopped her from trying to pull his family down around them to make them look like the bad guys. I’m just going to say it; he married someone who vaguely resembled his mother. However, it turned out to be much worse; she was trying to be Diana.
What Harry And Meghan Should Do
If Harry and Meghan want to change people’s opinions of them, they need to stop preaching their garbage. There are only so many people who can take it at a time. So regardless of what they want, if they don’t use social media for Archewell, fine, but don’t force the opinion onto others. Ramming an agenda down people’s throats is what turns them off.
Meghan loves throwing the ‘racism’ card out in the open, saying she and Harry had ‘no choice’ in leaving the royal family because of racist attacks. That is such shit, and they know it. The reason why their approval ratings have gone down is because of their behaviour. So yes, some people are bigots and use Meghan’s biracial heritage against her for…. what reason?
The people attacking her for her race are white supremacists who hate the idea of a half-black woman in the royal family.
Now, I have no issues with Meghan’s heritage or the fact she’s been divorced. I don’t care about any of that. It is her behaviour and Harry’s defence of it that I’m always ranting about. I think it’s great that the royal family accepted a biracial, divorced American woman into their domain.
Meghan is going after them and is having Harry follow her lead because she was not given what she wanted. She wanted complete control of everything they did. This means she tried to control how people saw them and wanted to lead the family. Sorry, darling, but that’s The Queen’s job. She’s the matriarch, and you need to respect that. You didn’t. It’s your fault.
Also, Harry and Meghan aren’t going to leave social media. So people are going to comment, regardless if they have accounts.
