Royal Wedding Disaster

[vernonk]

Surely the Royals should have realised Meghan’s family - certainly her father - needed protecting, even coaching in how to cope and conduct themselves. For example, What the heck is the sister of the Royal bride doing appearing on ITV Good Morning Britain today? Thing is they’re just ordinary folk catapulted into an extraordinary situation, and their first thing ughts are publicity and profit. The Royals could easily afford to pay them to keep quiet. What a terrible mess they’re in now. For me it all comes down to whether Harry is marrying the right sort, if not the right person, and my answer is definitely not. I give it two yeas max. And when it inevitably fails, boy will she make them pay! But, in not protecting and guiding Meghan’s family from the off (the engagement at least) the Royals only have themselves to blame

[Spungle]

Which family do you mean Naomi? :)

[Peter Pedant]

//and their first thing ughts are publicity and profit. //

the line could have proceeded: look Tom we gonna photograph you so why not make a bidda moolah oudda what is gonna happen anyway ?

an Tom said: yeah - good idee !

I think it is very hard for a father to 'volunteer' not to attend his darters wedding - I feel for the old boy.

yeah they shoulda picked him up and quarantined him - but how to get him to England in the first place?

Trump wouldna deported him - he's white isnt he ?

[ hmm I am not sure how to drag Brexit into this altho I have succeeded with just about everything else]

[Peter Pedant]

I like the idea of
no marriage with a commoner
she should have been royal

like Diana ..... three grandparents courtiers - so she knew what she was getting into.

[bhg481]

I have lots of sympathy for Meghan's parents but not her siblings. Meghan's dad is about the same age as me and shuns the limelight just as I do. Suddenly he's found himself to be a major player in one of the most famous weddings of the year - what a nightmare. On top of that the press are hounding him, lurking with their long lenses, taking pictures of everything he does. They probably promised that if he'd pose for a few they'd leave him alone and I can understand him falling for that. It only says the pictures were sold for lots of money - it doesn't say that he was paid lots of money. There was also a picture of her mum "spotted shopping", a rough translation being "we've been camped outside your house for weeks with our long lenses waiting for you to show yourself and now we've got you".

[jackthehat]

Is it being so cheerfull that keeps you going, vernon?

Mr M is a grown man who seems to have spent his life making a slew of bad decisions. He lives a quiet, private life in a small village and being thrust into the photo-lens of the world is undoubtedly his idea of hell. He'll be torn between wanting to perform 'Father-of-the-bride' duties for his daughter and preserving his (relative) anonymity.
He's being badly advised by those closest to him in the USA. I have no doubt that he will have been offered some sort of assistance by the Palace but there's precious little they can achieve with him being several thousand miles away.
It's a startling contrast with the behaviour of Meghan's Mother who hasn't put a foot wrong.
I wish Harry and his bride all the very best....

[dannyk13]

JTH, A sane voice in the wilderness.

[Peter Pedant]

I still feel sorry for Tom
( nice aside quote of Jn 1 - 1 tho' I am the voice crying in the wilderness make straight the way of the Lord!)

he was wandering around his local Walmart wivva ( sorry widda) tesco plastic bag - saying to strangers -
My daughter is gonna marry the future king of England

darter I mean - with a grasp of foreign policy like that
he should be in the White House shouldnt he?

[Barmaid]

I'd really like to be a fly on the wall at the offices of KP and BP right now though.

[Sqad]

danny

"JTH, A sane voice in the wilderness."

perhaps as a respect to other ABers who had different opinions, replying "I agree with the post of JTH " might have been more diplomatic.

However....I do agree with the comments of JTH.

[anneasquith]

It's the best soap opera on television at the moment. Had they been nominated they would win " best soap opera " .

[dannyk13]

Sqad, no disrespect intended, just my opinion.

[Sqad]

danny.......understood.

[Baldric]

Good grief,
'Monkeys, Wagonloads and Keyboards' spring to mind reading this.

[ummmm]

Why is it a disaster?

[naomi24]

ummmm, I presume because at the eleventh hour the father of the bride who was meant to be waking her down the aisle, isn't going to attend. Simplest solution is for her mum to take his place. I think that would be rather nice.

[ummmm]

I don't consider that a disaster. He's shy. I wouldn't do it either.

[naomi24]

*walking* not waking - although it wouldn't surprise me if, come the big day, she's exhausted with all this Jeremy Kyle carry on.

[naomi24]

ummmm, it would have been handy if he'd said 'no' in the first place then, not leave it until days before the event.

[Guilbert53]

>>>like Diana ..... three grandparents courtiers - so she knew what she was getting into.

Sorry but Diana had no idea what she was getting in to.

She was just a young virgin who was sacrificed to provide two heirs for Charles while he could carry on with Camilla.

I always remember the day Charles and Diana got engaged and Charles was asked by a reporter "do you love her" and he said "whatever love is"

Diana should have run a mile then.

[naomi24]

//Sorry but Diana had no idea what she was getting in to. //

Diana wasn't a commoner - she was aristocracy. She might have had girlish romantic notions that her marriage would be different from the rest, but she wasn't ignorant of the system.