Imagine using your pregnancy as a PR opportunity
these guys don't realise how far they've gone. They left for privacy, but hired an aggressive PR firm - hmm. All their income relies on public facing content. She wants to be an American Royal, but the magic doesn't work when you are all over press in ugly moments of constant bitterness. Although there certainly was racist press and responses, and the upper classes can be incredibly racist (see the experiences of Emma the Countess of Weymouth, who is half Nigerian, and who I adore! Why did they never make friends?!) sometimes all of us have to look beyond the "they don't like me because I'm female/my skin colour/my hair do" to reflect on whether it is our actions and personality traits that alienate. Very little that Meghan does seems to me to be particularly entrenched in her mother's culture - the lack of natural hair...even the way she speaks is white Californian celebrity...the clothes she wears and the way she decorates is also very mainstream Hollywood...I don't even think there is much for racists to pick on - she has been white passing most of her adult life. Why would people say it's racist to complain about this pregnancy announcement? Like yes it's not really very British royal, is that racist or just monarchist? Is that wrong? Do we have to like someone taking century old traditions and flogging them commercially? Is not liking that evil? Honestly sometimes the world seems craaaaaaazy, I can't follow all the arguments,
but yeh for people who left a whole palace for privacy and keep suing over privacy, it's very reasonable for papers to make jibes about privacy loving people making national press releases on a calculated day of the year at a time that gains maximal exposure, they release a lot late on sundays so they're in the papers all week.
the longer time goes on the more I feel they are genuinely trying to engineer a fluffy lovely beautiful fantasy view of themselves so the more it feels fake. Where I come from we don't callously use a combination of a pregnancy and the world famous Diana's footprints, for desperately needed good PR. You tell your friends and family, you pick a week or two after the birth of someone else in the family (geez they're even meant to like Eugenie), and Just generally act like you're happy but private instead of shoving your husband's bare feet all over the internet. They're weird, they are so weird. It's all spin and they're about to get dizzy and fall over!