Against Popular Opinion

 

Hi Everyone. Tonight I am going to voice my opinion on something that will mostly go against the grain; but at the end of the day, it is just my opinion as it really has NO effect on the people I am writing about, nor the people reading this...

I am well aware of the fact that people get on social media, a lot of the time, to stir shyt up. People go onto celebrity mag sites to catch up on all the latest in celebrity gossip... 

Tonight I want to talk about one couple in particular. It might be because I am part British, or that my country is part of the Commonwealth, or simply because I used to freelance write in the entertainment industry. Whatever the reasoning, this subject/this couple has been a bone of contention for people all around the planet. I am talking about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (The Duke & Duchess of Sussex ~ Members of the British Royal Family).

Right from the start, this couple getting together had it's issues among the public, and apparently among the Royals themselves. I am flat out going to say it... Meghan was a divorced American Black Woman, and she was the first person who was ever going to join the British Royal family, that would be a person of colour. 

(Yes, I am fully aware of this being a "touchy" subject among the (m)asses; and it irks me. I really thought our world has gotten to see people as people, not identify them by the shade of their skin...)

I was and still am rooting for this couple. Meghan and Harry married, went on to have two children. Harry made the decision to recuse himself from most of the royal duties; citing that he was more concerned for his wife and children, than he was about being a royal... essentially. Harry did NOT want his wife (or children) to have the life his mother, The Princess of the People, Her Royal Highness Princess Diana, Princess of Wales had to endure while she was forced to live under the constant eye of the Insitution AND the media.

We ALL know that Diana's life was taken way too early, thanks to the papparazzi not letting her enjoy her life after she divorced that pathetic Prince Charles (Sorry, I will never identify him as my king... He's a douchecanoe at best!!!). The paparazzi (and possibly others) played a key role in the tragic death of the beautiful soul, known as Princess Diana on July 31, 1997.

I had mad respect for Harry standing his ground, packing up his family and leaving England, first moving to Canada, then off to the United States to live life somewhat out of the sight of media. People are furious, saying Meghan controls him; that she somehow is destroying him. I see DAILY how people are bashing her, and I cannot stand it!!! I don't know them personally, but I am pretty sure Prince Harry is a grown ass man, who is married and a father himself. You can bet any money that he didn't make this decision lightly. 

He had to watch how cameras stalked and haunted his mother, literally to her death; and as a mere boy, he was not to mourn nor cry. He had to suck it up and carry on. To this day, my heart breaks for him... I can honestly feel that inner child within him will never heal from that trauma... and people bitching about how he chose to live, like the media constantly taking pictures of him or his wife... is a constant reminder of how he lost his mother... its gross!!!

Yes, I can see where people feel Meghan is using the title to become even more famous and a household name; but you also need to remember, she was an American actress who was thrust into an unimaginable life within an institution she knew pretty much nothing about... following protocols she had zero guidance to learn. I do NOT feel she is out there craving the spotlight. I don't think she is out there exploiting the Royal family or her husband. I don't even think her nor Harry are really exposing their children to the outside world; at least nothing extraordinary.

People need to stop comparing Harry and Meghan to William and Catherine (Kate)... they are two completely different couples who were brought up in two completely different environments. William and Kate were brought up with the "pedigree". Kate grew up in a much higher society than Meghan. William had been in training to be the future king since the second he drew his first breath; where Harry was given more freedoms; even to the point that he could go on blind dates in America.

I think people need to just leave Harry and Meghan alone. Stop comparing apples and oranges, in the sense, that Kate knows her role, she has known the institution since she was very young, she grew up in the UK. Meghan is more of a free spirit, who grew up in a broken home; but truly made a name for herself, by herself. She deserves credit. She deserves to be recognized for the strong woman she is. Kate may remind you of Princess Diana with her fashion and her etiquette, but I can tell you Meghan is the one who has Diana's feisty attitude; the mamabear mentality. She has the free, independent ideology Diana had. 

I have no doubt that Diana, herself, would absolutely LOVE Meghan and be very grateful that this woman stood by his side while he got away completely from a place she never truly could escape, except through death!!! Stop bashing them. Maybe appreciate Harry and his wishes. Give him and his family the freedom and privacy he has been asking for. Stop bashing his chose in a wife, as that is insulting to him, and terrible for his children to one day read. Just remember, didn't people also say very nasty things about The Princess of the People???

~Phoenix