One of the pictures on that mood board is one created by some Sussex fan, they photoshopped two separate photos of H&M greeting Māori leaders with that nose to nose touch to make it so their noses were touching. How has that wound up in her personal, intimate ‘love story’ collage?
PS: Harry hair transplant? Lots of hats the past few appearances for early summer California.
I also think he’s having a hair transplant. I was struck by how bald he was even in that photo from 2016 in Botswana on the mood board. The audacity of him calling out William about this!
I always go back once a year to rewatch Kate's and William's wedding. It's amazing the magnitude of the wedding yet it still felt so intimate and romantic. I just don't get that vibe from Meghan's and Harry's wedding (maybe I'm biased) but it felt so impersonal, no family from Meghan's side. All these celebrities like it was a red carpet event. Meghan slapping that man's hand as he extended his hand to help her exit the car spoke volumes about her. And don't even get me started on those ill fitted bridesmaids' dresses. I still cringe looking at Charlotte's dress and the hemline. Definitely not a wedding I would rewatch and even more tainted by all the drama that lead up to the wedding.
1. Funny how all the photos on the “mood” board (I didn’t know your mood could be self-isolation, but if anyone would have that mood it would be The Duchess of Sussex) included exactly zero photos of the 8-10 months Meghan took to lose the baby weight with Archie. Only photos with full makeup and Hollywood svelte physique made the board, even though the board seems to be cataloging the couple’s entire time together.
2. Harry in not one, but two, terrible hat choices. The man is in the middle of getting plugs - mark my words - and he’s probably all swollen and bruised so he has to cover up. He’ll come back with a full head of deep auburn hair and these two will photoshop prior photos and try to convince us he was never a full ginger.
3. My family cooks at home most nights, but my kids have food allergies. I was raised on McDonald’s about five nights per week with pizza and Mac and cheese filling the other two nights, so yes this is a thing. I am trying to do better for my kids, but for anyone worried about it, I turned out fine.
The mood board with the carefully layered photos, the labels in the odd handwriting, the teasing with certain photos is both woefully boring and cringeworthy. It is so blatant an attempt to garner attention for nothing. Meghan continues to reveal her lack of substance and high narcissistic level. Trying to push a narrative that isn’t real- whether it’s how she “elevates the everyday” or a “love story for the ages”- just shows how much Meghan wants to curate life, rather than actually live it.
I've been thinking about that ever since their Netflix documentary revealed she was literally taking photos while Harry proposed to her. It must be exhausting to be in content creation mode 24/7, never getting to enjoy things without thinking about how you can curate them for social media. (This isn't even specific to Meghan - I see a lot of my peers display the same behavior. Even I sometimes get caught up in the "Oh, I need to take a picture for the 'gram, otherwise how will anyone else know about this?" mindset when I could just...tell them. In person. Social media-driven brain rot is real.)
I’m not surprised she documents a lot. Not bc it’s for social media, but the desire to have that memory to view again. At least that’s the case for me. I hardly ever post on social yet I’ll take the hoots and videos of every outing.
Oh, I totally understand wanting to document for personal reasons and memories! I think it’s when it seems to be documentation for public adulation, rather than personal, that we feel a sense of inauthenticity.
For me it looks like she was prepping for a movie/film/program/coffee table book about herself (the six part love story) from the get go. It doesn't look like she herself was documenting her own life for herself- it's more that professional photographers were photographing posed, staged moments or presumably intimate (private) moments for public consumption later. That fact that she shares little (by social media standards) may reflect the need to control everything as much as possible, and attempts to create interest or demand or value.
When I quit Instagram a year ago, I found myself reflexively thinking about how certain choices would look on my feed. I don’t do that anymore and it’s so refreshing. The curated mood board is so 2015, just like the Netflix aspirational show she did. Lainey Gossip said it best earlier this year in Vanity Fair regarding Meghan: “Fame arrests you when it arrives.”
The main difference is Instagram was new in 2015 and the economy was booming and so influencers took root and it was fashionable and acceptable to post a curated and aspirational version of your life. Now, a decade on, we’re all on to the reality behind the perfect photo and it’s considered gauche at best and fake at worst to continue to post that way. Further, when the economy is as precarious as it is now and many people have trouble making ends meet, showing off in that way is tacky.
Wow, mind blown. Are we not consumers of social media, IG in particular? I don’t know about you but the content I consume is largely aspirational. We have reality around us - why would we seek reality when it’s all around us? This is wild to me.
I think I was in 2015, now not so much. I actually don’t do social media beyond Substack. But I acknowledge I’m an outlier. I think a lot of people follow celebrities on IG now because they want to feel connected to them in a real way. The way celebrities post now (whether it’s real or not) is trying to be relatable. Meghan isn’t doing that as much.
I should add, I think Meghan probably wants us to believe she’s very relatable, but I personally have never found her relatable. Ever since maybe the engagement interview I find her contrived. I know I’m not alone, but there are people who find her very credible I think.
And who takes all those perfect couple photos of them? Standing in front of several sunsets, always looking perfect. That is not how our photos turn out.
The photos on the mood board are so over-curated. Strangely they also show the Sussex’s privilege-the locations, the events, the clothes. Meghan seems to want to present herself as a philanthropist, but if that were the case why share a mood board that looks so elitist? Meghan has some inner conflict between who she thinks she is and who she thinks she wants people to think she is and the two are not compatible.
And William and Kate were named to Times 100 Top Philanthropists today. Hmmm, wonder indeed what MM is cooking up next. Especially given that announcement. Speaking of cooking, I don’t do a lot now. When my daughter was growing up we either lived with people who were also parents, also into healthy stuff for kids, so we shared cooking or else my daughter and I were on our own and, well, I tried to at least have healthy food in the house. But we had more than a passing acquaintance with the local restaurants. There are so many good ones in Toronto, that’s my excuse,
All the full length images of Meghan pressing up against Harry seem to be trying to say "I'm so sexy" and "I'm so hot" to an almost desperate degree. Enough already. Especially for the British public in my experience.
I think she has very notably dropped the philanthropy angle recently. I don’t think she has ever had any kind of real interest in that, frankly, except maybe in giving speeches. I actually think her best project so far, although the least popular, has been the founder podcast. She can display her hustle and it seems like that’s the real her.
Well Sky News Australia said this morning that her Founder podcast isn't even in the top 100 for Spotify as of her 7th episode. Not exactly a smashing success if that reporting is true. I Google'd to see if Sky News was reporting correctly and the AI bot admitted it was.
It really begs the question who took the photos in Botswana. Did the boat captain have to stop and take 25 photos until she said they got the perfect one of her arms held up just right while Harry smiled behind her? Who is taking photos from behind them? Also, they took a “before” photo when they got all dressed up for that appearance in 2020. I’ll say one thing: for someone who hates press photos, Harry seems very happy to take these photos.
Especially the Botswana ones always baffles me. Could of course be a Ranger or security. But also the bw one in their kitchen at Frogmore after some sort of gala. Her sitting on the kitchen table. We all know that situation from when we get back from a party, but who took them? Strange.
On point, as ever! We have had TV chefs here in the UK show us how to "level up" quick meals - but if you are rustling up something quickly, who wastes time fancying it up? Or else you throw in what you've got, not look for a recipe to see what to add. (I'm not going to sprinkle dead flowers on my beans on toast!)
We cook from scratch most nights; eat out with friends about once a month, and get take away about once every two months or less.
One of the main draws of takeout is that there’s nothing to clean up, too - so if you’re plating everything in serving dishes it kind of defeats the purpose
Re: cooking dinner: From my perspective, and in my social circle, cooking all or even most nights of the week is very unusual. I'm mid-30s, live on my own, and eat mostly take-out, prepared foods from the grocery store, or frozen/box meals I've dressed up. When I do cook a meal from scratch, I make enough that I can live off it for several days. This seems to be the norm among friends and relatives my age, at least for those of us without kids. (My friends with kids appear to make more of an effort, but even they are still getting takeout multiple times a week.) TBH it's not something I feel great about, but I work full time while attending grad school, so my time is limited. I'm also simply not domestic and don't enjoy cooking. So I actually found Meghan's "confession" very relatable - the first time she's ever been to me. *shrug*
I understand the different life choices regarding eating out. I believe that having children and/or a family/personal history of a chronic illness may change people's perspective on the food choices they make. And there's always the issue of the cost; not every family can afford eating out or even having a take-away more evenings than not, while other families don't even think about it. Still, I find Meghan's choice/confession really odd, on the verge of hypocrisy even: you can't preach making a "casual" rainbow fruit plate for kids or sprinkle petals on "almost anything" to elevate how it looks, and at the same time skip cooking dinner almost daily. To me, it's like hearing that Martha Stewart used to throw home parties using third-party catering! Having said that, I'm not that surprised with Meghan. Sadly, she's trying too hard to convince us that she's the persona she's diligently curated to present, yet her real self still comes out from the cracks...
Oh, I'm definitely not trying to pretend that my food choices are responsible from a financial or health perspective! Just giving my observation that there is indeed a wide swath of Americans for whom Meghan's lifestyle - at least this particular aspect of it - is not strange or noteworthy. The difference, of course, is that the rest of us aren't trying to portray ourselves as a domestic goddess!
The best selling stuff at our local upscale grocery stores is all the many prepared foods of all kinds, not the ingredients to do it at home. Years ago they had a home economist on staff and gave away recipe cards but today that has disappeared.
My husband and I definitely have tons of photos of us together, both posed and selfies. But I’m someone who has always been obsessed with photography and getting photos of and with the people that I love.
You sound like Catherine! I’m sure Catherine has so many family photos she’s taken over the years framed around their houses. It makes you wonder if she inspired someone else.
I don't follow many lifestyle brands, so I may be wrong on this....but I thought the whole point of them was to make the glossy, glam celebrity lifestyle seem more achievable and to actually have the celebrity front and centre, sharing their personal selves (or a version of), thus making words like "Founder" completely inappropriate? Surely there are no "founders" in a lifestyle brand...there just *is* the celebrity or influencer 🤷🏻♀️. I find her wishing herself a happy anniversary via As Ever, very odd.
It really depends on how you look at it, but to me she is much closer to someone like Kate Hudson or Jessica Simpson putting their name on a clothing line to trade off their image than she is to an anonymous person who identifies a true white space and fills it with a new product, which is what I would consider a founder to be. I will say though that I would consider Gwyneth a founder even though she used her celebrity to get goop off the ground, as what she created really hadn’t existed before and it has had an impact on the culture. (Although apparently it’s never actually turned a profit!)
I'm French, so different culture here. I would never display a picture of myself in my living room (but I know it's different in the USA, and I think younger French do it as well). And, I eat out once a week but cook on the weekend to have meals prepared until the middle of the week.
If you don't mind me asking, where do you put family photos? I'm in the UK and it's really normal here to have family photos, wedding photos, baby photos etc, all over the living room, perhaps even kitchen, and also the downstairs toilet haha! But I remember a French student a few years ago being shocked that I had a thank you card from my nephew on display in my living room: "But we can all see it!" he said.
It is fascinating and wonderful how different different cultures are.
I don't have any. My mother and my sisters have some photos in their living room but they are not in the picture.
I agree, it's fascinating how different cultures are and, I think it's something Meghan has not taken sufficient account (and, maybe Harry is discovering now that Americans have more than a different accent!)
I agree- when Harry and Meghan first got together and then got married, I didn't notice any red flags with her at the time, but I did feel apprehensive about how vastly different British upper class culture is to Meghan's American culture. The old saying of "two countries separated by a common language." I felt there would be some struggles ahead in adapting and managing those vast differences. Little did I know how divided everything would become!
Having lived in London, my first thought on learning that she was an actress from California was that she was going to hate the big old drafty homes and the “country” decorating. When you have pots of money and are American there’s really no way you’re going to give up Los Angeles for London—at least not full time. I think that was what she wanted, what several wives of famous men do. Turn up when required but otherwise live somewhere else. I actually love London but the weather and the central heating! Although if I had her budget I’d have stuck it out.
Oh the weather just destroys all of us, even when you love the UK! It can be relentlessly miserable if you don't have a game plan for coping with the rain, cold, damp, winter darkness, and actually, increasingly humid summers with no air con. And the countryside pursuits of hunting, muddy walks, the Royal Family's love of horse racing, etc just were so obviously not what a woman from LA would likely enjoy either!
Yep! And I am sure it chafed not being able to just pop out to a wine bar or to SoHo house. She really didn’t have any friends in London. The first year I lived there I had to get used to not talking about “well in Canada we….” And the Brits don’t take to people whining about things do they? The weather maybe, everyone sighs about the weather but otherwise we just got on with things.
We rarely get takeout, but I’m a teacher and based on the conversations I’ve had with many of my students, they have takeout for dinner 4-5 times a week.
Perhaps the take out frequency is a generational thing. When I was young, long ago, we had take out once a week at the most. So I don’t look for take out meals as often as younger people. As I am retired, we cook at home almost every night, with take out maybe once a week.
Megan sure knows how to ruin an occasion. Nothing she does brings joy.
One of the pictures on that mood board is one created by some Sussex fan, they photoshopped two separate photos of H&M greeting Māori leaders with that nose to nose touch to make it so their noses were touching. How has that wound up in her personal, intimate ‘love story’ collage?
PS: Harry hair transplant? Lots of hats the past few appearances for early summer California.
I also think he’s having a hair transplant. I was struck by how bald he was even in that photo from 2016 in Botswana on the mood board. The audacity of him calling out William about this!
It was particularly cruel and uncalled for.
I thought that Maori picture was insane, I didn’t know that it was made by a fan.
I was told by someone who knows about these things that the fluffy stuff in the middle of his head is actually a failed hair transplant. 🤷🏻♀️
Does she have lip filler in her pic with “James”?
It sure looks that way!! Now we’re gonna have fish mouth Meghan!! Hehehe
Ohhh, that wrecking a royal wedding comment have me a great giggle. #Burnnnn
I always go back once a year to rewatch Kate's and William's wedding. It's amazing the magnitude of the wedding yet it still felt so intimate and romantic. I just don't get that vibe from Meghan's and Harry's wedding (maybe I'm biased) but it felt so impersonal, no family from Meghan's side. All these celebrities like it was a red carpet event. Meghan slapping that man's hand as he extended his hand to help her exit the car spoke volumes about her. And don't even get me started on those ill fitted bridesmaids' dresses. I still cringe looking at Charlotte's dress and the hemline. Definitely not a wedding I would rewatch and even more tainted by all the drama that lead up to the wedding.
The hand slapping that day was insane….
“As Ever could be run out of her garage” just took me out 🤣
I laughed out loud when I read that line!
It’s essentially an Etsy storefront.
You are spot on!
So many thoughts:
1. Funny how all the photos on the “mood” board (I didn’t know your mood could be self-isolation, but if anyone would have that mood it would be The Duchess of Sussex) included exactly zero photos of the 8-10 months Meghan took to lose the baby weight with Archie. Only photos with full makeup and Hollywood svelte physique made the board, even though the board seems to be cataloging the couple’s entire time together.
2. Harry in not one, but two, terrible hat choices. The man is in the middle of getting plugs - mark my words - and he’s probably all swollen and bruised so he has to cover up. He’ll come back with a full head of deep auburn hair and these two will photoshop prior photos and try to convince us he was never a full ginger.
3. My family cooks at home most nights, but my kids have food allergies. I was raised on McDonald’s about five nights per week with pizza and Mac and cheese filling the other two nights, so yes this is a thing. I am trying to do better for my kids, but for anyone worried about it, I turned out fine.
Self-idolation**
About point 2: He must erase the doubts about the identity of his biological father and, therefore convince us that he never had full ginger hair.
The mood board with the carefully layered photos, the labels in the odd handwriting, the teasing with certain photos is both woefully boring and cringeworthy. It is so blatant an attempt to garner attention for nothing. Meghan continues to reveal her lack of substance and high narcissistic level. Trying to push a narrative that isn’t real- whether it’s how she “elevates the everyday” or a “love story for the ages”- just shows how much Meghan wants to curate life, rather than actually live it.
I've been thinking about that ever since their Netflix documentary revealed she was literally taking photos while Harry proposed to her. It must be exhausting to be in content creation mode 24/7, never getting to enjoy things without thinking about how you can curate them for social media. (This isn't even specific to Meghan - I see a lot of my peers display the same behavior. Even I sometimes get caught up in the "Oh, I need to take a picture for the 'gram, otherwise how will anyone else know about this?" mindset when I could just...tell them. In person. Social media-driven brain rot is real.)
I’m not surprised she documents a lot. Not bc it’s for social media, but the desire to have that memory to view again. At least that’s the case for me. I hardly ever post on social yet I’ll take the hoots and videos of every outing.
Oh, I totally understand wanting to document for personal reasons and memories! I think it’s when it seems to be documentation for public adulation, rather than personal, that we feel a sense of inauthenticity.
Judging by how little she shares (by social media influencer standards), I genuinely think she's just documenting her own life.
For me it looks like she was prepping for a movie/film/program/coffee table book about herself (the six part love story) from the get go. It doesn't look like she herself was documenting her own life for herself- it's more that professional photographers were photographing posed, staged moments or presumably intimate (private) moments for public consumption later. That fact that she shares little (by social media standards) may reflect the need to control everything as much as possible, and attempts to create interest or demand or value.
When I quit Instagram a year ago, I found myself reflexively thinking about how certain choices would look on my feed. I don’t do that anymore and it’s so refreshing. The curated mood board is so 2015, just like the Netflix aspirational show she did. Lainey Gossip said it best earlier this year in Vanity Fair regarding Meghan: “Fame arrests you when it arrives.”
Interesting. I’ve heard this said before too, but what does it mean? Is 2015 that much different than 2025? How so??
The main difference is Instagram was new in 2015 and the economy was booming and so influencers took root and it was fashionable and acceptable to post a curated and aspirational version of your life. Now, a decade on, we’re all on to the reality behind the perfect photo and it’s considered gauche at best and fake at worst to continue to post that way. Further, when the economy is as precarious as it is now and many people have trouble making ends meet, showing off in that way is tacky.
Wow, mind blown. Are we not consumers of social media, IG in particular? I don’t know about you but the content I consume is largely aspirational. We have reality around us - why would we seek reality when it’s all around us? This is wild to me.
I think I was in 2015, now not so much. I actually don’t do social media beyond Substack. But I acknowledge I’m an outlier. I think a lot of people follow celebrities on IG now because they want to feel connected to them in a real way. The way celebrities post now (whether it’s real or not) is trying to be relatable. Meghan isn’t doing that as much.
I should add, I think Meghan probably wants us to believe she’s very relatable, but I personally have never found her relatable. Ever since maybe the engagement interview I find her contrived. I know I’m not alone, but there are people who find her very credible I think.
Perfectly said.
Same same!!!
And who takes all those perfect couple photos of them? Standing in front of several sunsets, always looking perfect. That is not how our photos turn out.
The photos on the mood board are so over-curated. Strangely they also show the Sussex’s privilege-the locations, the events, the clothes. Meghan seems to want to present herself as a philanthropist, but if that were the case why share a mood board that looks so elitist? Meghan has some inner conflict between who she thinks she is and who she thinks she wants people to think she is and the two are not compatible.
And William and Kate were named to Times 100 Top Philanthropists today. Hmmm, wonder indeed what MM is cooking up next. Especially given that announcement. Speaking of cooking, I don’t do a lot now. When my daughter was growing up we either lived with people who were also parents, also into healthy stuff for kids, so we shared cooking or else my daughter and I were on our own and, well, I tried to at least have healthy food in the house. But we had more than a passing acquaintance with the local restaurants. There are so many good ones in Toronto, that’s my excuse,
All the full length images of Meghan pressing up against Harry seem to be trying to say "I'm so sexy" and "I'm so hot" to an almost desperate degree. Enough already. Especially for the British public in my experience.
I think she has very notably dropped the philanthropy angle recently. I don’t think she has ever had any kind of real interest in that, frankly, except maybe in giving speeches. I actually think her best project so far, although the least popular, has been the founder podcast. She can display her hustle and it seems like that’s the real her.
Well Sky News Australia said this morning that her Founder podcast isn't even in the top 100 for Spotify as of her 7th episode. Not exactly a smashing success if that reporting is true. I Google'd to see if Sky News was reporting correctly and the AI bot admitted it was.
It really begs the question who took the photos in Botswana. Did the boat captain have to stop and take 25 photos until she said they got the perfect one of her arms held up just right while Harry smiled behind her? Who is taking photos from behind them? Also, they took a “before” photo when they got all dressed up for that appearance in 2020. I’ll say one thing: for someone who hates press photos, Harry seems very happy to take these photos.
Especially the Botswana ones always baffles me. Could of course be a Ranger or security. But also the bw one in their kitchen at Frogmore after some sort of gala. Her sitting on the kitchen table. We all know that situation from when we get back from a party, but who took them? Strange.
I think we can safely say there are 3 in this marriage, H&M - plus an ever present photographer to record their perfect love story
On point, as ever! We have had TV chefs here in the UK show us how to "level up" quick meals - but if you are rustling up something quickly, who wastes time fancying it up? Or else you throw in what you've got, not look for a recipe to see what to add. (I'm not going to sprinkle dead flowers on my beans on toast!)
We cook from scratch most nights; eat out with friends about once a month, and get take away about once every two months or less.
One of the main draws of takeout is that there’s nothing to clean up, too - so if you’re plating everything in serving dishes it kind of defeats the purpose
Re: cooking dinner: From my perspective, and in my social circle, cooking all or even most nights of the week is very unusual. I'm mid-30s, live on my own, and eat mostly take-out, prepared foods from the grocery store, or frozen/box meals I've dressed up. When I do cook a meal from scratch, I make enough that I can live off it for several days. This seems to be the norm among friends and relatives my age, at least for those of us without kids. (My friends with kids appear to make more of an effort, but even they are still getting takeout multiple times a week.) TBH it's not something I feel great about, but I work full time while attending grad school, so my time is limited. I'm also simply not domestic and don't enjoy cooking. So I actually found Meghan's "confession" very relatable - the first time she's ever been to me. *shrug*
I understand the different life choices regarding eating out. I believe that having children and/or a family/personal history of a chronic illness may change people's perspective on the food choices they make. And there's always the issue of the cost; not every family can afford eating out or even having a take-away more evenings than not, while other families don't even think about it. Still, I find Meghan's choice/confession really odd, on the verge of hypocrisy even: you can't preach making a "casual" rainbow fruit plate for kids or sprinkle petals on "almost anything" to elevate how it looks, and at the same time skip cooking dinner almost daily. To me, it's like hearing that Martha Stewart used to throw home parties using third-party catering! Having said that, I'm not that surprised with Meghan. Sadly, she's trying too hard to convince us that she's the persona she's diligently curated to present, yet her real self still comes out from the cracks...
Oh, I'm definitely not trying to pretend that my food choices are responsible from a financial or health perspective! Just giving my observation that there is indeed a wide swath of Americans for whom Meghan's lifestyle - at least this particular aspect of it - is not strange or noteworthy. The difference, of course, is that the rest of us aren't trying to portray ourselves as a domestic goddess!
Exactly that, @literarylottie!
It wouldn’t be especially noteworthy except she has a show about domestic bliss!
The best selling stuff at our local upscale grocery stores is all the many prepared foods of all kinds, not the ingredients to do it at home. Years ago they had a home economist on staff and gave away recipe cards but today that has disappeared.
My husband and I definitely have tons of photos of us together, both posed and selfies. But I’m someone who has always been obsessed with photography and getting photos of and with the people that I love.
You sound like Catherine! I’m sure Catherine has so many family photos she’s taken over the years framed around their houses. It makes you wonder if she inspired someone else.
I wish they’d crawl into a hole and keep quiet for six months.
Longer please
More than six months would be even better. When Archie is dating would be too soon.
Once again, all we are asking is for their own privacy. We beg them to be private.
I don't follow many lifestyle brands, so I may be wrong on this....but I thought the whole point of them was to make the glossy, glam celebrity lifestyle seem more achievable and to actually have the celebrity front and centre, sharing their personal selves (or a version of), thus making words like "Founder" completely inappropriate? Surely there are no "founders" in a lifestyle brand...there just *is* the celebrity or influencer 🤷🏻♀️. I find her wishing herself a happy anniversary via As Ever, very odd.
It really depends on how you look at it, but to me she is much closer to someone like Kate Hudson or Jessica Simpson putting their name on a clothing line to trade off their image than she is to an anonymous person who identifies a true white space and fills it with a new product, which is what I would consider a founder to be. I will say though that I would consider Gwyneth a founder even though she used her celebrity to get goop off the ground, as what she created really hadn’t existed before and it has had an impact on the culture. (Although apparently it’s never actually turned a profit!)
And her Mother's Day posts had nothing to do with her own mother. They were all about her. Not surprising at all.
I'm French, so different culture here. I would never display a picture of myself in my living room (but I know it's different in the USA, and I think younger French do it as well). And, I eat out once a week but cook on the weekend to have meals prepared until the middle of the week.
We put up gallery walls of our families in our living room.
If you don't mind me asking, where do you put family photos? I'm in the UK and it's really normal here to have family photos, wedding photos, baby photos etc, all over the living room, perhaps even kitchen, and also the downstairs toilet haha! But I remember a French student a few years ago being shocked that I had a thank you card from my nephew on display in my living room: "But we can all see it!" he said.
It is fascinating and wonderful how different different cultures are.
I don't have any. My mother and my sisters have some photos in their living room but they are not in the picture.
I agree, it's fascinating how different cultures are and, I think it's something Meghan has not taken sufficient account (and, maybe Harry is discovering now that Americans have more than a different accent!)
Thank you for your reply, that's so interesting!
I agree- when Harry and Meghan first got together and then got married, I didn't notice any red flags with her at the time, but I did feel apprehensive about how vastly different British upper class culture is to Meghan's American culture. The old saying of "two countries separated by a common language." I felt there would be some struggles ahead in adapting and managing those vast differences. Little did I know how divided everything would become!
Having lived in London, my first thought on learning that she was an actress from California was that she was going to hate the big old drafty homes and the “country” decorating. When you have pots of money and are American there’s really no way you’re going to give up Los Angeles for London—at least not full time. I think that was what she wanted, what several wives of famous men do. Turn up when required but otherwise live somewhere else. I actually love London but the weather and the central heating! Although if I had her budget I’d have stuck it out.
Oh the weather just destroys all of us, even when you love the UK! It can be relentlessly miserable if you don't have a game plan for coping with the rain, cold, damp, winter darkness, and actually, increasingly humid summers with no air con. And the countryside pursuits of hunting, muddy walks, the Royal Family's love of horse racing, etc just were so obviously not what a woman from LA would likely enjoy either!
Yep! And I am sure it chafed not being able to just pop out to a wine bar or to SoHo house. She really didn’t have any friends in London. The first year I lived there I had to get used to not talking about “well in Canada we….” And the Brits don’t take to people whining about things do they? The weather maybe, everyone sighs about the weather but otherwise we just got on with things.
We rarely get takeout, but I’m a teacher and based on the conversations I’ve had with many of my students, they have takeout for dinner 4-5 times a week.
Perhaps the take out frequency is a generational thing. When I was young, long ago, we had take out once a week at the most. So I don’t look for take out meals as often as younger people. As I am retired, we cook at home almost every night, with take out maybe once a week.
Megan sure knows how to ruin an occasion. Nothing she does brings joy.