Some thoughts
I’m not sure where to put this so please feel free to move it or to let me know where it should go.
True Story: A week or so after Harry and Meghan announced their engagement, I was on the phone with a colleague working on a project. This colleague is London born and raised, living and working in Canada. I’m in the US.
After we got our project completed we started talking and the topic of Harry and Meghan came up. He just made the comment; “I don’t like her”. I asked him why and he said “I just don’t like her”. That kind of got my back up a little and I asked why again; “because she was American, beautiful, an actor, smart, well educated, well spoken, biracial” and a few more things I knew about her. His response; “ Yes”.
I then brought up the trash talk in the media and asked him if he thought it was fair to her and Harry and he said it wasn’t, “it’s just how it is”. I asked him if the entire population of the UK were so gullible and stupid and desperate for gossip that they would believe the obvious lies and misinformation that was being plastered all over their news. His response to that was two words, “Shit sells”.
I think about that conversation when I see more tabloid articles and headlines about Harry and Meghan and how horrible they’ve been treated. There’s no real reason for the hatred to come back. I know they’re in the UK so Harry can work on the Invictus Games preparation coming up next year and to spend time with some of his favorite charities. They are private citizens now and I do have concerns for their safety. I just don’t get it.
It also makes me think of Diana and what she lived through and how she died. Has the whole of England forgotten the role the British public played in her misery and her death?