Meghan Markle‘s friends warned her about the harsh media attention she would face if she pursued her relationship withPrince Harry.
“It’s hard. I don’t think anybody can understand that, but in all fairness, I had no idea,” she said of the relentless attacks from tabloids. “Which probably sounds difficult to understand here, but when I first met my now-husband my friends were really happy because I was so happy.”
Meghan added, “But my British friends said to me, ‘I’m sure he’s great but you shouldn’t do it because the British tabloids will destroy your life.’ And I very naively — I’m an American we don’t have that there — said, ‘What are you talking about? That doesn’t make any sense! I’m not in tabloids!’ I didn’t get it. So, it’s been… yeah, it’s been complicated.”
Amid the relentless tabloid attention on her interracial relationship and family, the royal mom of one said she hopes people will one day come to understand and focus on the love she and Harry share for one another.
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While visiting Cape Town’s Nyanga township, Meghanproudly spoke about being a woman of color.
“For me, when I chose to add those words intothe speechit was really at the last minute, and I said to Harry, ‘What do you think if I add this in?’ ” she explained in the new documentary. “I don’t know, it just felt right, and he very kindly and supportively said, ‘If that’s what feels right then that’s what you should say.’ ”
“Because it’s true,” she added. “Before I was part of this family, that’s how I identified with people and connection. As a mother, now, and a wife, now, but just as a woman — and as a woman of color, which has been brought to the forefront in a more prominent way.”
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Towards the end of the tour, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced their decision tolaunch legal action against theMail on Sundayfor publishing a private letter that Meghan sent to her father.
They are also suing News UK (owner ofThe Sun) and MGN (former owner ofThe Mirror) regardingalleged illegal interception of voicemail messages.
source: people.com
