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While many people in the U.K. are upset with the way Prince Harry and Meghan Markle dissed the royal family, the Sussexes have become more popular in the U.S. since they moved to California last year.
However, Anthony Sabatini, a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives, thinks the actressā behavior is unacceptable.
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Woke is the roar of smug, entitled mediocrities everywhere: The insanity of a world where Thomas The Tank Engine, craft beers and even country walks are branded racist drives Ā
By Ā JULIE BURCHILL FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 22:01 BST, 23 October 2021 | UPDATED: 09:37 BST, 24 October 2021
Prince Harryās father, Prince Charles (perhaps the grandaddy of Woke, with his mutterings on this and that), has long exemplified my observation: āItās no wonder that the wealthy are friends of the Earth ā itās been a damn good friend to themā
None of these āGreenā hypocrites could hold a hand-poured soy wax vegan Highgrove candle to their kingpin, the Prince of Wales, who in 2007 flew first class to America ā with an entourage of 20 people ā to collect an environmental award.Ā And then, two years later, used a private jet on an āenvironmentalā tour of South America, costing approximately Ā£300,000 for a 16,000-mile trip.Ā Say what you like about Prince Harryās parentage, in this department he certainly seems to be a chip off the old blockhead.
Prince Charles has an actress chum, too. Emma Thompson (the grandmother of Woke) flew in first class from Los Angeles to London to join the Extinction Rebellion protests of spring 2019 ā a 5,456-mile transatlantic flight that stomped out a three-ton carbon footprint.Ā Extinction Rebellion, which demands that flights be used only in emergencies, simpered that Dame Emmaās jaunt was āan unfortunate cost in our bigger battle to save the planetā.
In short, Green ā like Wokeness itself ā is the first socio-political movement in which every mover and shaker ranges from well-off to filthy rich.Ā
Between 2017 and 2019 I had a rather embarrassing crush on Meghan Markle
Meghan has never waited soppily for some prince to rescue her,ā I wrote in one magazine. āIn fact, it seems far likelier that it is she who will rescue the prince.āĀ CRINGE! as the youngsters say. Thankfully, I was swiftly thoroughly disillusioned.
āHarry and Meghan took four private jets in 11 days after a summer of lecturing us about climate change; this followed shortly after the Princeās jaunt to the Google climate change summit where he is also thought to have taken a helicopter, as he habitually uses them to fly short distances whereas the Queen makes do with a train,ā I scribbled in another article.Ā Having Elton John rush in to defend them didnāt help, but only further established that the Sussexes saw themselves as international stars rather than one nationās public servants.ā
Shortly after hearing that Meghan planned to semi-retire from Royal duties in order to spend more time with her merchandising, I coined the phrase the āGrabdicationā (grabbing the limelight, grabbing the status, grabbing the cash) and my rehabilitation was complete.Ā
The Grabdication was another Woke event, along with the Gender Recognition Act and the Remoaner refusal to accept Brexit, which while appearing to be liberal was actually the opposite.
The Grabdication told peasants that princes may do as they wish with no regard to public opinion
Weād been on this ādo-as-I-say- not-as-I-flyā bumpy ride before, of course; Prince Harryās father, Prince Charles (perhaps the grandaddy of Woke, with his mutterings on this and that), has long exemplified my observation: āItās no wonder that the wealthy are friends of the Earth ā itās been a damn good friend to them.āĀ The idea of a pre-industrial Eden ā the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate ā has fuelled the righteous fury of aristocrats against capitalism since the late 1960s.
Meghan couldnāt keep away from the US, and it soon became clear exactly why she had left her husbandās home country, dragging the poor sap behind her.Ā She didnāt want to be out of the limelight ā she just wanted a different kind of limelight.
The American-born, London-based Royal commentator Ashley Pearson provided a piquant comment which certainly rang true, considering the peevishness which emanated from the couple as soon as the honeymoon was over: āShe had no idea how unglamorous it really is to be a Royal and, when she found out she would be a civil servant in a tiara, she was, like, āNo way.āā āĀ Which brings us right back to the Grabdication, when a heady blend of wealth, celebrity and Wokeness reached its shining peak, and it was briefly Camelot for Meghan and Harry, the fraudulent monarchs of a fraudulent movement: the First Couple of Woke.
From the September 2019 issue of Vogue, edited by none other than Me-Again herself, to the moment they were revealed as the only people apart from Greta Garbo ever to move to Hollywood because they wanted to be left alone, they could do no wrong.
And then the Grabdication went bust, and was revealed as being as morally bankrupt as the celebrity and the Wokeness which had spawned it, with a whole nasty level of its own because the three belief systems had never been seen in the same place before.
The Sussexesā more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger faces stopped selling magazines as we shied away from yet another showboating photo-op of them handing out food to the poor.Ā Their popularity plummeted, with a YouGov poll showing that they were only marginally more popular than Princess Anneās corgi-killing dog Dotty.
Never mind ā theyāll have their multi-million-dollar Netflix deal to keep them warm until the Americans realise thereās nothing special about them without the musty tinge of monarchy ā which will surely evaporate quickly when that blinding Pacific sunshine is let in upon the magic.
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Up close and personal: How it really feels to meet the Duchess of Cambridge January 10, 2021
Tears, blushes and blurting out āIām speechless!ā ā how it really feels to meet the Duchess, by the people who have.
The Mail on Sundayās royal editor Emily Andrews has watched Kate blossom over the past ten years.
Kate and William celebrate Pancake Day while Emily Andrews looks on, Belfast, 2011. Image: Getty Images/Chris Jackson
āAre you sure? Do you really think it suits me? I was a little hesitant.ā That was the surprising but endearingly honest reply when I complimented our future Queen on her new hairstyle. It was more than five years ago, after sheād had Princess Charlotte, that Kate debuted a new āmum fringeā. The most photographed ā and photogenic ā woman on the planet had had her hair cut, but even she was a little unsure.
She patted her hair and smiled gratefully as I reassured her that, yes, the new ādoā did indeed look fabulous. It was an intriguing insight that, despite her position, wealth, fame and gorgeous family, she shared the same worries and doubts as the rest of us.
And that, I think, is what has cemented the Duchess of Cambridgeās unassailable position as the linchpin of the modern Royal Family. She allows just enough daylight into her life, gives just enough to make her seem āone of usā, yet she is not. Or rather, she was. Once. Now marriage to Prince William gives her both a worldwide platform to effect change on whatever issue she chooses (plus unlimited dresses and jewels) but also the unstinting glare of the media spotlight.Ā I first met Kate, or Catherine as she prefers to be called now, just after the Royal Wedding in 2011. Self-assured and extremely amusing in private (she has a wicked sense of humour), in public she initially seemed to struggle with nerves.Call it what you will: stage-fright, weight of expectation, never wanting to put an LK Bennett-shod foot wrong. The former Miss Middleton did not want to mess up, and that gave her a somewhat hesitant public persona.Public speaking did not come easily to her. She had voice coaching which resulted in strangled vowels (sorry, Kate). She was criticised for taking her time. Not taking on too much in terms of either royal engagements or patronages. Was she, some whispered, just a teensy bit boring?I remember in 2014 watching her stumble over her words at the National Portrait Gallery, as she gave a rare speech. Later that year in Sydney, she made a touching and emotional speech at a childrenās hospice, yet continually looked to her husband for reassurance.When, I wondered, would she find her metaphorical feet? For many women, motherhood can be a challenging time. Exciting, nerve-racking, alienating, isolating in the extreme. But for Kate it seemed to be the making of her. I realise that may sound slightly sexist, but itās not.Being a successful mother, and providing three heirs to the British throne, galvanised her public confidence and has left her much more assured in what she wants to do and where she wants to go. Yes, in her eyes, her most important job is parent to George, Charlotte and Louis. But that success has given her much-needed confidence in her public role. Her interest in childrenās early years began long before she was a mum. She was the brains behind the Royal Foundationās mental health initiative Heads Together and now she wants to see a generational shift in how the nation brings up its children. Seeing her today, comfortable and confident in her role as a senior royal, I have no doubt that the Duchess is finally stepping into the spotlight.
āShe really listenedā
Kyla Lethbridge, 15, from Hertfordshire met the Duchess in 2015 when Kate visited childrenās mental health unit Acorn Lodge where Kyla was an inpatient.
At the time I was nine years old and had been at Acorn Lodge for about a month. I have ADHD and was suffering from various mental-health issues, including depression. A week before we met Kate, we did an exercise where we wrote letters to her. At the time she was pregnant with Princess Charlotte, so I remember writing that I wished her well with the baby.
A week later, our headteacher came into the unit and told us that we would be meeting Kate that day. We didnāt believe him at first ā then about an hour later she walked in. Most people were silent, but I was the first to say something. I think I said, āIām speechless!ā She talked to us for quite a while ā or rather she listened to us. There were about ten of us in the class, with a mix of mental-health problems. She seemed to understand what we were going through.
At the time I was prone to violent outbursts, but there was something about her presence that was calming. IknewIhadtobeonmybest behaviour: she is royalty, after all. But that day, she didnāt seem like it ā she was so down-to-earth.
After weād chatted, she had a photo taken with everyone ā Iāve still got mine (above). I was grateful that sheād taken time out of her busy life to spend it with us. It made me feel like there was hope. Knowing that there are good people who are willing to talk made me look on the bright side at a time when things were tough. Iāll always remember that.
āShe saw my daughter and said, āI love babies! I wish I could hold herāā
Morgan Cassius, 29, from London, met the Duchess last September at an event in Battersea Park that was part of Kateās advocacy for early years support. Morgan was invited by Mush, an app for mothers, that she had started using shortly after her daughter was born in March last year.
Iād put my daughter Makena-Grace in the cutest outfit but, 20 minutes before the Duchess arrived, sheād made a mess of it and Iād had to change her. So at that point I wasnāt really worried about anything else going wrong!
When Kate walked towards us her reaction to Makena-Grace was so natural and instinctive. She saw her and smiled, then said to me, āI love babies! I wish I could hold her but obviously [because of Covid] I canāt.ā
She took her sunglasses off and showed them to Makena-Grace while we were talking and, throughout our conversation, it felt as if she was genuinely interested in my experiences, and wanted to know the answers.
We talked about how Iād expected my maternity leave to be and what it had actually been like because of the pandemic. And also about how the one upside of it had been the extra time that my husband had been able to spend with me and our daughter. āOh yes,ā she said. āWe mustnāt forget the dads. They need time and support, too.ā
Sheās really passionate about provision for new mothers and children. I never felt like I was talking to someone who had just put their name to something.
āThe first thing I noticed was her warm smileā
Jacqui Thompson, 54, from Nottingham, met the Duchess in November 2011 when she gave a speech at a fundraising dinner held by the Cambridges in aid of the National Memorial Arboretum. Her husband Gary ā a senior aircraftman with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008 ā is one of thousands of service people remembered there.
I could never have imagined Iād be giving a speech in front of the Duchess of Cambridge, but after I lost my husband I got a lot of help from the RAF Benevolent Fund, so I started fundraising for them, and, through them, for the National Memorial Arboretum.
It didnāt really hit me until I got there and I saw the Duke and Duchess walking towards us. She looked stunning in a silver one-shouldered dress ā the gown was wonderful.
I was introduced to her and one of the first things I noticed was her warm smile. When she says, āItās nice to meet youā, you really feel like itās genuine. We talked about Gary and about the Arboretum. When she asked me how I felt about making a speech, I told her I was terrified. She touched me on the arm and said, āYouāll be wonderful.ā
At dinner I was sitting opposite her but it was one of those large tables that you couldnāt speak across. I tried not to stare but every time I sneaked a look she always had a smile on her face.
I have a daughter the same age as her and having met her I feel very protective towards her. I see her at these events, meeting people and I just know what a difference she makes. Iām in awe of her.
It felt as though we shared a momentā
Rebecca Binstock, 49, from Hertfordshire, met Kate in October 2011, when she accompanied her father Lionel to a charity dinner at Clarence House. The event was meant to be hosted by Prince Charles, but at the last minute Kate stepped in as her father-in-law had to go to a funeral. It was her first solo engagement after marrying Prince William in April that year.
It wasnāt until we got to Clarence House and the doorman told us he had āa bit of newsā that we found out weād be meeting Kate. It was a very intimate event ā only around 30 people ā so she made her way around the room, speaking to everyone before dinner.
She didnāt seem nervous, but not nearly as self-assured and relaxed as she now seems when you see her at public events. She kept blushing slightly, in the same way that Princess Diana used to, and I remember that striking me at the time. In person sheās so beautiful ā she has an almost ethereal quality.
When she got to us, I complimented her on how stunning her wedding dress was. In July that year it had been put on display at Buckingham Palace, and she admitted she had been overwhelmed by the response to the gown. āI thought it would only be there for a day or so, but everyone wants to see it,ā she said.
My father can be a little eccentric. I canāt remember what he said to her, but she kept catching my eye when he was talking. It felt as if we had one of those shared moments that you get at a party when someone is trying to extricate themselvesā¦ fortunately one of her aides intervened and moved her along!
Interviews: Claire Coleman