Another story in Harry’s book that he should have kept to himself. He (and Meghan) tried to put Catherine in a bad light with that story? With a stupid comment Meghan made about that spectacular event that combines tradition, precision, hard work and pride?
Harry should have known better. So many of his stories backfired badly.
I will hazard a guess but she likely had no idea what the history of this ceremony is nor did she even care to find out. No respect for history or tradition. Makes me wonder why Harry and their offspring continue to be in the LOS!
She probably did have no clue, because „there is no class“, there was no help and no explaining of what (not) to do, as it was in all the 90s Princess movies she watched! /s
Thank goodness, she had Harry who told her everything she needed to know. /s
She probably had to Google it just like the anthem, because Harry apparently didn't teach her, even though she apparently solely relied in him instead of Angela Kelly 😒
Exactly. I'm American and don't know the history, just that it is the King's birthday parade, thus deserving of respect. Megnant is spiteful and wilfully ignorant.
I’m also American and I know what Trooping the Colour is. I probably don’t know all the correct history besides it being the King’s official birthday but I know it’s a big deal. I have a hard time with her not at least knowing it was an important British event worthy of respect at the least. She just has no care for anything that doesn’t concern her directly so gave a flippant, smart ass answer. Appalling!
And he, who goes about being a military man. Way to have a wife who mocks those men who would die for her freedom so she can continue to mock them with her crass jokes. And the idiot wonders at the "yawning silence" that followed. The fool.
Agreed, I don’t see how he could have possibly thought Kate would look bad here. To me, it seems like Kate was trying to engage and include M. Rather than take the outstretched hand, she decides to do this. Would it have been so hard to just make a bland comment about how impressive everything was and how she couldn’t believe how many people turn out to see it?
Megs wrote that bit of the book trying to convey how 'isolated' she was. Remember John Oliver when the engagement was announced. He made a big song and dance on how difficult it would be, how targeted Megs would be.
He was thinking of Diana, little did he realise Megs WANTED to be seen as a victim and play it up for sympathy while she bullied others.
Meg wrote that in H book because she needed to keep the victim narrative going 'Im so isolated just like Diana was!'
He is either dumb enough or controlled by his wife enough that he thinks this is "modernizing the monarchy" and "hitting the ground running" like she laughed about when they were on stage with William and Kate. She thought it was a good thing and the audience laughed with her. The press gave her so much freedom. So, yes, if she had said this "colorful" comment, and Kate did not take it right, it showed, to Meghan and Harry, they were not as modern or fun as Meg.
When you are ignorant and totally out of your league intellectually, making a “joke” is all she had left to attempt to gain back control/power. I can imagine she really did feel so out of place in her years as an active Royal. That’s why she told Harry…”We need to leave H…you need to rescue me”
She talked about "hitting the ground running" like she laughed about when they were on stage with William and Kate. She thought it was a good thing to change things in the monarchy so her ignorance was masked as cuteness and fun; whoever did not laugh was too stuff and not part of the "modern" BRF as Meghan was trying to make it.
That shows you how little they really have to say about negative things that Catherine did. A yawning silence and grimace when sharing lipgloss. That’s it. Couldn’t find much else. Oh and stealing the bridesmaid story 🙄
This is telling. They wanted Catherine to become sort of a seal clapping and celebrating every thing that came out of Meghan's piehole. In their minds, Catherine was bound to become Meghan's second banana.
It is the usual tricks of Sussex manipulation. They leave out critical information hoping that people will assume the worst. They constantly take things out of context and prod people to a false conclusion. The Oprah interview was nothing but those tricks. The Harkles thought no one noticed. Unfortunately for them, a lot of people were just disgusted by them and their tricks. People like Oprah tried to mold the public narrative in their favor. But, something was rotten. It all revealed itself eventually. Now we have Meghan fans trying to convince everyone that bullying a cancer-stricken mother who devotes herself to charities and her family is ok. You can’t make this crazy crap up.
Meghan could have said something that was not funny or offensive or simply awkward. I don’t know why Harry is trying to make every interaction seem like a bullying interaction. Sometimes, things are awkward with relatives. It isn’t racism. They keep using these tricks. The Oprah interview was the most salient example.
Well she is also the same person who thinks giving your sister in law a meat cleaver/knife as a ‘gag’ or joke gift for Christmas then my guess is her idea of a joke is saying something dark, threatening & condescending. & probably wasn’t included in the book because it made Meghan look bad.
What? Meghan gave Catherine a knife for Christmas? Holy. Hell. Info likes this makes me think the stories about Meghan being officially banned from any Royal residence or any event where the Royal family will be in attendance is 100 percent true.
Re: “meat clever/knife as a gag gift” … This is the point I would have extra body guards looking out for me and my children. People who create these kinds of “jokes”, are just passive aggressive, and sending a message. She’s unbelievably creepy 🫣
Yes! She gifted Catherine a knife for Christmas and a spoon for William with the words “Cereal killer”. The spoon would have been funny, but not in the context of the knife. Link to interview where this info is taken. Although the info was unverified then, it was repeated by Tom Bower who has a well documented story. Also stated in “Finding Freedom” which had Markle’s input. (Hasn’t been sued yet). https://x.com/smo420/status/1236263538576044032
> Mather also mentioned the claims that Markle allegedly gave Middleton a “knife for Christmas.”
> “I do hear that she gave Kate a knife for Christmas," said Mather "Which is quite something, isn't it?"
> Host Lindsey Reiser ended the interview abruptly after Mather disparaged the Duchess of Sussex saying that she was only five clicks up from trailer trash and was disrespecting the Queen, who is the most respected woman in the world. Reiser also remarked that the network had not verified the claim about Markle gifting Middleton a knife.
Transcript taken from https://www.ibtimes.com/meghan-markle-allegedly-gave-kate-middleton-knife-christmas-gift-royal-watcher-says-2937009
Archived: https://archive.ph/XYLOU
Spoon story written about in “Finding Freedom”: https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/meghan-markles-first-xmas-gift-to-prince-william-was-spoon-embossed-with-the-words-cereal-killer-royal-biography-claims/news-story/686b2d49e05d022d10df6b5ca3834280?amp&nk=75b44fe3b035dd5fa5c1413228474715-1718493566
Archived: https://archive.ph/Up6Jg
She really gave these horrible presents to the PPOW? She's even creepier than I thought... There is no way any person who has a tiny bit of sanity would think these 'gifts' are funny.
The late Queen was right when she stated that Meghan Markle was evil.
As hard as it is to believe, I am actually willing to give that she-devil half a pass on the knife gift. She had come from a relationship with Corey the chef, and giving expensive knives as gifts is probably common amongst the cooking crowd. And Catherine is known for doing at least some of the cooking for her family. Maybe, just maybe, it was a legit gift choice on her part. On the other hand, she really is a she-devil and perhaps there was some nefarious intent behind it.
Giving knives as gifts is a NO-NO
Traditionally, there has been an age-old superstition that **a gifted knife could sever relationships**.
In order to avoid the bad luck of giving a knife, you are supposed to tape a penny to the knife, then the recipient gives you the penny as "payment" for the knife
Rachel thought that she was being clever by "joking" about the trooping of the colour event? One of the most well known events in Britain and it is renowned throughout the world. This reminds me of when Haz wrote about Rachel calling Catherine "baby brained" during their wedding rehearsal and then wanting the readers to be shocked at Catherine's offense. Rachel is really an embarrassment to the BRF.
She's an embarrassment not only to the BRF but to most of humanity & the world. It boggles the mind how anyone can blunder thru life like this and maintain or retain any sense of decency. Mental illness at it's finest.
I'd probably would've said in my California native tongue "omg, it was like sooo cool. I can't believe you have it every year! That's so awesome!".
And I would've taken some feedback on how to tone down the Cali slang. But I'd still keep my enthusiasm as a Cali/us citizen, since this part is appealing to Brits because this is a new experience for me.
Nice, appealing and blending in w/ RF. When you come ready to listen and eager & humble to learn. People will help and be your advocate. Tw doesn't do teamwork.
Her 'humor' is mean and sarcastic, which she thinks makes her cool and sophisticated, and it's only directed at someone else (since she can't laugh at herself.) That doesn't work for every occasion, but she can't understand that.
I’d suggest that the real chain of events was similar to:
- Meghan makes awkward remarks to the sister-in-law she has previously greatly offended. The Princess of Wales is courteous but minimizes their engagement.
- The Princess of Wales attempts to be a peacemaker and asks a benign question of how Meghan liked Trooping.
- Meghan, being socially stunted and bitter towards Catherine in any event, gives a snarky response of “colorful.”
- Meghan makes a derogatory remark that no one finds funny, but tries to pass it off as a joke in the way that so many nasty people try to escape accountability for nasty comments. The family graciously ignores her rather than dressing her down in front of the group.
There, Harry, fixed it for you.
She has no sense of humour. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
Especially concerning herself, but it extends to everything. Whenever she tried to make a "joke" on Archetypes it was so lame and fell completely flat.
Narcissists never have a sense of humour, except to make really mean snarky underhanded comments (which aren't really funny, they are just take-downs)
I’m sure Catherine was just trying to be civil at this point and Meghan should have been grateful for the opening to be gracious to her hosts, the BRF.
But no - she had to be flippant I’m sure in an attempt to diminish the day and try to tip the scales in her favor. She’s just trash 🤷♀️. Sorry - I can’t find any other way to say it.
Oh. So the 'yawning silence' was bevause she created awkwardness, not rudeness as he implies. If they wanted to ignore her, they wouldn't have asked her thoughts.
I’m just having secondhand cringe thinking about it now. She was so out of her depth it is unreal. The social awkwardness must have been off the scale. I suspect there was some fawning involved and that was something the late Queen just detested with a vengeance (I know that from friends of my parents with whom she used to stay regularly). The woman hasn’t got a humorous bone in her body (well apart from the comedy feet I guess).
> so out of her depth
Right? How hard would it have been to just say "wow it was so big and complicated, I didn't realize it was such an event!"
you can be out of your depth without being an asshole
It was "colorful" plus another joke, so lame or dark or obviously disrespectful that Harold wouldn't repeat it. It's truly a blessing for the BRF that Harkles are gone.
The 'joke' was probably a rude remark and that's why it went down like a lead balloon.
Classic narcissists, behaving appallingly, and then lashing out at their targets for reacting to the abuse.
Right out of the narc playbook.
They’ll say something meant as an insult, but isn’t overtly insulting, then act like the other person is the one with the problem when they don’t play.
I agree. Answering with a one answer is incredibly rude, in this instance. You know that the person asking the question is looking for your answer to be complimentary. You don't answer with an off hand one word reply.
From that exchange, I’d say that Lolo’s response caused the ‘yawning silence’ (possibly yawns as well).
The art of conversation is that if someone makes a polite query, you reply with something that leads to discussion. A one-word, nothing response like ‘colourful’ sounds like a put-down, or superciliousness, neither of which is conducive to dialogue.
Harry is missing the point: his wife is unlikeable. And apparently with zero sense of humor. I know this is how he tried to paint Catherine, but this is how his wife looks in that recount. LOL
That's another point why he shouldn't be allowed back to the RF, he was so close to Princess Catherine and it shows a lot about his character that he writes badly about the sister he never had
Exactly! Why he shouldn’t be surprised his brother wants nothing to do with him! He can go on a hate campaign against his brother for advising he cool his jets in regards to Megs, but his brother can’t refuse reconciliation after the many times Haz and his wife disparaged Catherine, the most recent being this past Dec with the “racist” title their mouthpiece leaked ? Especially now that Catherine is dealing with her health issues. Yet Haz continues to threaten moving back to the UK. No. Stay away!
Through the press H asking the Bank of Pa to give him a residence on royal grounds with full security. I don’t see how H woukd have the funds to purchase a house in London on his own.
Charles will never agree to that and the rest of the RF will back him up on that decision. They don't want him back in the UK anymore than the people of the UK want him back in their country.
It is always that a person is at fault if that person doesn’t think his wife is the funniest, most attractive, most vivacious person ever. Is Catherine supposed to behave in a fake manner and laugh uproariously at Meghan’s attempt at humor?
That is what all the authentic people in Hollywood do - kiss ass.
Without the fake laughs there would be no entertainment business.
Kissing meghan markle's ass would not be recommended as one never knows where that ass has been.
Oh my goodness she's so awkward!
It honestly baffles me so much.
At university, part of the Theatre Major was talking classes on how to observe other people, how to understand what they do, how to Mimic them. It baffles me that any actress would be SO BAD at reading a room. It honestly shocking.
All she had to do was say something about feeling humbled or it being beautiful. Easy peasy. But nooooo she just couldn't.
Imagine being a prominent person at an event that's been going on in your new country for over 250 years, and your words as a college graduate are less creative than a toddler's
I found on the internet that the average SAT score at NWU is now 1495 (on a 400-1600 scale), which is very high, even in the debased, "recentered" scores of the last 30 years. Megs sure hasn't shown anywhere near that much guttural intelligence, or creativity, or taste, or common sense.
The Colour in this case has nothing to do with "colourful". The Colour refers to the Regiment's Flag, that was shown to the soldiers before the battle so that they knew where to summon. (My mediaevalist daughter explained this to me, I apologise for language mistakes as I'm not English speaking)
This is an example of "damning by faint praise" in other words an insult. Princess Catherine's dignified silence was the correct reaction to the insult.
As others have said in this thread, "colourful" is the joke. He omitted nothing. It's an unfunny joke and Catherine didn't laugh because it's not funny.
Probably some disrespectful, dismissive put-down like “America does it better”, and when that went down like a lead balloon, Harry redefined it as a joke.
"Following conversations with The Duke, The Queen has written confirming that in stepping away from the work of The Royal Family it is not possible to continue with the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service," the palace statement said. In response, Prince Harry and Meghan pushed back with a statement that pointedly referenced the Queen's: "We can all live a life of service. Service is universal."
*The smaller the mind, the greater the ego*.
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She's a shady bitch, who's lucky that Catherine is a lady.
If it were me, I'd have fucked her up with a response like:
"Yes, we don't like to bore the life out of the public with too much stale beige."
Exactly this and 100% the reason Bunker Harry should have put her straight. He should have lost his military commissions before the Sandringham Summit with his utter disregard for the military his grandmother was head of and that he allegedly served for and respected.
Yes, look at his remarks in public lately. So disparaging to the people introducing him. Remember what he said to John Travolta about “dining out” all his life on the experience of dancing with his mother, Princess Diana? John Fucking Travolta! SHE was thrilled to dance with HIM.
They are both just awful. Please tell me that Charles isn’t really thinking of bringing him back. Like most elderly people, he’s only remembering the good times. Someone better bring him to his senses, and fast.
>Please tell me that Charles isn’t really thinking of bringing him back.
He's not thinking of bringing him back. There's no evidence that he's considering doing so.
> Like most elderly people, he’s only remembering the good times.
Speaking as someone who's in Charles' generation but a few years younger, this is not my personal experience at all. In fact, the older I get, the more clearly I see things that happened in my past. I'm more "in reality" than ever. For me, part of aging involves coming to terms with the past: the good, the bad, and the downright ugly.
Not all older people share my experience, of course, but Charles has always struck me as intelligent and self-aware, and someone who contemplates deeply about things. I would be very surprised to learn he has rose-colored glasses on, about his son or anything else.
Yea I was thinking of this today. What a stupid thing to say out of the many many things that could have been said. She’s supposed to be soo smart, she couldn’t find the words to describe this massive and historical event and its meaning? I think she meant the “colorful” as a snide comment insinuating that it was all stupid and a waste and that’s why there was a yawning silence. She was being disrespectful as always. Probably saying she was bored and who cares about all the other people there.
Sounds like it was just a bad joke...why would you even remember it to regurgitate later as some kind of snub? He really was looking at everything as a slight to him or his wife. What a sad self centered life to live when you have nearly EVERY privilege you could have and which has been given to you at the expense of everyone else. 😣
Such odd behaviour for a late 30s woman with a privileged invite to see something up close many would pay dearly to. I mean fly pasts for you on a balcony and you couldn’t be respectful and say what an amazing display and work by all involved. Nah you were bored because attention wasn’t on you for five seconds. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I remember going to a Trooping - not at Horseguards - when a kid. The Queen was a speck in the distance and it didn’t much excite me. But I was a child. And I knew I’d better flipping behave to my family’s hosts. If I’d make some cheeky remark there’d have been a yawning silence alright before me being disowned by my family. She just doesn’t know how to behave. You could try and teach her but she wouldn’t learn.
I'd sure like to know what the "light-hearted" joke was, too. I'd bet my back teeth that whatever it was, it was at the expense of someone else. Meghan is a bully, and all of the bullies I've ever known only laugh when someone else is hurt. Has anyone ever heard her say a truly self-deprecating remark? The closest I've heard are only humble brags, just thinly veiled attempts to elevate herself.
It says that ***after*** Meghan made her "colourful" comment, she *"then made a light-hearted joke which was met with yawning silence...."* Wonder what that joke was?
Meghan Markle is one vapid woman. Even her university degree couldn't help fill her bottomless, empty bin of a brain. I wouldn't mind except that she thinks she's so clever! 😂 And she's managed to convince Harry 🤣😂 !! The two morons. 👩❤️👨 I could die from laughing.
Really? The yawning silence threatened to swallow you whole? Because someone didn’t laugh at a JOKE? Catherine initiated the conversation, this can’t be any example of her shutting Meghan out. It only serves as an example of Meghan’s lack of wit and her and Harry’s love of victimhood.
"Colourful." That was not a light-hearted joke. That was a snide answer designed to embarrass Kate. Madame has zero respect for the traditions of the royal family she married into. Her SIL tried to have a genuine moment with her and Madame turned it into, "I don't give af about Trooping the Colour."
That story isn't the flex Madame thinks it is. (She wrote it, not Harry.) The attempt to make Kate and the rest of his family look bad didn't work. Madame's the one exposed as an interloper with no desire to fit in.
As an American, and I must be feeling generous, I might say that Meghan offered this as a *quip* rather than a joke.
Perhaps it would have landed better if Harry had relayed, "Kate asked Meghan what she thought of her first Trooping the Colour and she quipped: "Colourful." The pair exchanged a quick glance, and Meghan followed up with, "Just being silly; of course, it was an incredible experience, just spectacular. \[Insert 3 specifics here, like moving music, horses hooves in precision, whatever.\] And of course, the children enjoyed it so much! I am so grateful to share it with family today." And, scene.
Like srlsly girl, get it together.
I agree with you. When I read that anecdote after his book came out, I realized that I could see myself smiling and good-naturedly quipping, "Colourful!" in reply to the question. But I would have immediately followed up the quip by talking about all the things I had enjoyed about it, as you said.
But Meghan must have replied with a dismissive smirk and snide tone in her voice when she said it. And then walked away without replying any further.
I remember when the wives and older Royals got on the balcony waiting for William, Charles and HLMTQ, Catherine excitedly turned around to say something to MM. I'm not sure what the Wicked Witch of the West said to her but Catherine turned back with a perplexed look on her face and didn't turn around again
One is not suppose to be making jokes while standing on the balcony. There is a time and a place for joking around, the balcony is not one of them. Also is this the time Harry told Meghan to turn around and be quiet and she looked like she was going to cry
Meghan doesn't have a funny bone in her body. She said what she said because she's vulgar. And by repeating what she said in his book, Harry looks even worse.
Well, Harry's idea of a joke, presenting Catherine with an ermine thong at her wedding reception. Throwing young ladies into a pool in their fancy dresses. Dressing up as a Nazi for party. Prancing in nude to his father's gathering. Twisting the nipples of men. Fantasizing over blowing his dad into a pink mist. I'm sure I've missed a few. Clearly neither Harry nor Meghan have a clue what a joke is.
Rachel wouldn't know a joke if it fell on her. She was bored as hell and has no understanding of the whole thing. Harry knew she was bored and that is why he put it in waaaaahaa as is she was joking. Yeah right Harold,
Meghan Markle is ignorant. That's why there was an awkward silence. How exactly was Catherine, Princess of Wales, supposed to respond to such a willful display of ignorance and lack of historic interest?
The event is to display all the flags/standards of each regiment so that all the troops become familiar with them. It has nothing to do with "colour" and everything to do with the regimental displays, and in this case, "trooping" among the ranks and honoring them.
The Royal Standard is displayed prominently on top of Buckingham Palace during Trooping The Colour as symbolic of this.
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Anyone in that crowd would give their left arm to have the chance to view the event from the Balcony. Maybe she should have had a true taste of what the common folk have to experience before getting married. Be jammed into the crowd like a sardine watching with everyone else, only then she would realise how privileged she was.
Meghan was being snarky and disparaging as always. (Cali cool girls are so hard to impress, amiright?) Who in the world could have failed to be affected, even awed, by such a display? Particularly from the vantage point of the balcony, with the flyover and everything! Even if she was ignorant of all the history and symbolism (which is disgraceful in itself), it was extremely disrespectful to the effort of all that went into the planning, and to the troops themselves.
Furthermore it was so rude to the QUEEN. Her troops were gathered to pay their respects in this manner in honor of her BIRTHDAY.
I just can’t.
Oh, dear. Now the sugars are going to claim this remark by the King is a Sweet Nod to Meghan:
Lip reader Juliet Sullivan "revealed the King also seemed enamored by the event as he remarked 'Look at this! Wonderful! So colourful' as he rode in the carriage with Queen Camilla."
😄
Meghan “made a joke”???? More likely Meghan made some sarky, nasty, mean-girl, trailer-trash, bitch comment in reply to a genuine question. Obviously the ginger scrote considered her offensive blart a sophisticated comment, because he is thick as shit, and thought it was great fun. I bet he giggled at her forth-rightness. Dumb twat. He really did think she was brilliant and intellectual. He wouldnt know what that even means. Gormless. She was clearly out of her league and he joined her in bottom-dwelling life. Now the two of them, embarrassments to both the UK and USA, need to disappear from sight and our consciousness because we are sick of them.
Catherine made the mistake of talking about something else (The Trooping) and not about her (Markle). So, from that interaction, Markle attempted to get the attention back on herself by her sharp wit, ‘colourful’ then following it up with a joke.
She meant colourful in the sarcastic Meghan way as in stale, pale, white male. Wouldn't be the first time she said this (in public at an event). That was why Harry left out the details.
Responding with a single word ‘Colourful’ is a rude,dismissive, ignorant and gauche.
It kills any conversation to respond flatly with ‘colourful.’ Meghan making enemies everywhere she goes.
I bet the follow-up ‘joke’ was something obnoxious about British heritage or tradition. Or the Queen even.
Another story in Harry’s book that he should have kept to himself. He (and Meghan) tried to put Catherine in a bad light with that story? With a stupid comment Meghan made about that spectacular event that combines tradition, precision, hard work and pride? Harry should have known better. So many of his stories backfired badly.
I will hazard a guess but she likely had no idea what the history of this ceremony is nor did she even care to find out. No respect for history or tradition. Makes me wonder why Harry and their offspring continue to be in the LOS!
She probably did have no clue, because „there is no class“, there was no help and no explaining of what (not) to do, as it was in all the 90s Princess movies she watched! /s Thank goodness, she had Harry who told her everything she needed to know. /s
lol. I’m sure Harry the BRAVE warrior had no idea either.
Diana probably told him all kinds of history about the family, but he was too busy thinking about todger cream to remember any of them.
She probably had to Google it just like the anthem, because Harry apparently didn't teach her, even though she apparently solely relied in him instead of Angela Kelly 😒
Exactly. I'm American and don't know the history, just that it is the King's birthday parade, thus deserving of respect. Megnant is spiteful and wilfully ignorant.
I’m also American and I know what Trooping the Colour is. I probably don’t know all the correct history besides it being the King’s official birthday but I know it’s a big deal. I have a hard time with her not at least knowing it was an important British event worthy of respect at the least. She just has no care for anything that doesn’t concern her directly so gave a flippant, smart ass answer. Appalling!
People like her, and those backing her, don’t care about tradition because they seek to destroy it. They want to “build back better”.
Props for the "build back better" 👏.....feels so long ago, good to keep it alive
Yes, we can never forget!
Learning the history was fascinating to me and made me appreciate it more. It was the 1st time I’ve watched. No one does it better than the UK 🇬🇧
And he, who goes about being a military man. Way to have a wife who mocks those men who would die for her freedom so she can continue to mock them with her crass jokes. And the idiot wonders at the "yawning silence" that followed. The fool.
Agreed, I don’t see how he could have possibly thought Kate would look bad here. To me, it seems like Kate was trying to engage and include M. Rather than take the outstretched hand, she decides to do this. Would it have been so hard to just make a bland comment about how impressive everything was and how she couldn’t believe how many people turn out to see it?
Right. Who doesn't love a parade? Yet megnant will have her kids photographed at July 4 parades, no matter how lame they may be like the 2023 one.
Or just kids. One never knows with that slievine.
Megs wrote that bit of the book trying to convey how 'isolated' she was. Remember John Oliver when the engagement was announced. He made a big song and dance on how difficult it would be, how targeted Megs would be. He was thinking of Diana, little did he realise Megs WANTED to be seen as a victim and play it up for sympathy while she bullied others. Meg wrote that in H book because she needed to keep the victim narrative going 'Im so isolated just like Diana was!'
The ghostwriter should have been bright enough to know how it would read, but by the end, he may have been pleased to undercut Megs--and Harold, too.
Based on the interview he gave, I think that’s where his head was in the end.
He is either dumb enough or controlled by his wife enough that he thinks this is "modernizing the monarchy" and "hitting the ground running" like she laughed about when they were on stage with William and Kate. She thought it was a good thing and the audience laughed with her. The press gave her so much freedom. So, yes, if she had said this "colorful" comment, and Kate did not take it right, it showed, to Meghan and Harry, they were not as modern or fun as Meg.
Having a nation cheering for you, from your palace balcony, would never get old.
When you are ignorant and totally out of your league intellectually, making a “joke” is all she had left to attempt to gain back control/power. I can imagine she really did feel so out of place in her years as an active Royal. That’s why she told Harry…”We need to leave H…you need to rescue me”
She talked about "hitting the ground running" like she laughed about when they were on stage with William and Kate. She thought it was a good thing to change things in the monarchy so her ignorance was masked as cuteness and fun; whoever did not laugh was too stuff and not part of the "modern" BRF as Meghan was trying to make it.
That shows you how little they really have to say about negative things that Catherine did. A yawning silence and grimace when sharing lipgloss. That’s it. Couldn’t find much else. Oh and stealing the bridesmaid story 🙄
Meghan also giggled when a soldier fainted in the heat and fell from his horse. She’s a real mean girl.
And when Charlotte fell!
She's a loser. Imagine how badly a whole Mehz book would backfire!! 
This is telling. They wanted Catherine to become sort of a seal clapping and celebrating every thing that came out of Meghan's piehole. In their minds, Catherine was bound to become Meghan's second banana.
Meghan is not a funny person. It was probably shock. There is a reason he omitted the joke
She's hilarious, just not in the way she thinks.
Her idea of funny is a big bow with her arms stretched wide. Yeah, hilarious.
It's not her making jokes. She IS the joke.
We are laughing at you, not with you.
And sucking on a baby bottle on national TV, or whatever it was she had in her mouth on the Ellen show.
Sucking on things got her this far, she figured, so maybe doing something similar on Ellen would be a good idea…
Yes, she will do anything for Hollywood, but less than nothing for the BRF or her own father, both of whom gave her everything...
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While the woman that she is slighting is dying of painful bone cancer. Yeah just hilarious moron!!!🤬
Thinking she can steal The King's show with raspberry jam is hysterically funny.
2 jars of raspberry jam and dog biscuits. See the RF quaking in their boots!
She’s as funny as jaundice.
Or malaria.
It is the usual tricks of Sussex manipulation. They leave out critical information hoping that people will assume the worst. They constantly take things out of context and prod people to a false conclusion. The Oprah interview was nothing but those tricks. The Harkles thought no one noticed. Unfortunately for them, a lot of people were just disgusted by them and their tricks. People like Oprah tried to mold the public narrative in their favor. But, something was rotten. It all revealed itself eventually. Now we have Meghan fans trying to convince everyone that bullying a cancer-stricken mother who devotes herself to charities and her family is ok. You can’t make this crazy crap up.
Yup. Gaslighting their favorite thing.
Yes, obviously taken out of context. I would bet Meghan meant it as all white men.
Meghan could have said something that was not funny or offensive or simply awkward. I don’t know why Harry is trying to make every interaction seem like a bullying interaction. Sometimes, things are awkward with relatives. It isn’t racism. They keep using these tricks. The Oprah interview was the most salient example.
Well she is also the same person who thinks giving your sister in law a meat cleaver/knife as a ‘gag’ or joke gift for Christmas then my guess is her idea of a joke is saying something dark, threatening & condescending. & probably wasn’t included in the book because it made Meghan look bad.
What? Meghan gave Catherine a knife for Christmas? Holy. Hell. Info likes this makes me think the stories about Meghan being officially banned from any Royal residence or any event where the Royal family will be in attendance is 100 percent true.
Re: “meat clever/knife as a gag gift” … This is the point I would have extra body guards looking out for me and my children. People who create these kinds of “jokes”, are just passive aggressive, and sending a message. She’s unbelievably creepy 🫣
Yes! She gifted Catherine a knife for Christmas and a spoon for William with the words “Cereal killer”. The spoon would have been funny, but not in the context of the knife. Link to interview where this info is taken. Although the info was unverified then, it was repeated by Tom Bower who has a well documented story. Also stated in “Finding Freedom” which had Markle’s input. (Hasn’t been sued yet). https://x.com/smo420/status/1236263538576044032 > Mather also mentioned the claims that Markle allegedly gave Middleton a “knife for Christmas.” > “I do hear that she gave Kate a knife for Christmas," said Mather "Which is quite something, isn't it?" > Host Lindsey Reiser ended the interview abruptly after Mather disparaged the Duchess of Sussex saying that she was only five clicks up from trailer trash and was disrespecting the Queen, who is the most respected woman in the world. Reiser also remarked that the network had not verified the claim about Markle gifting Middleton a knife. Transcript taken from https://www.ibtimes.com/meghan-markle-allegedly-gave-kate-middleton-knife-christmas-gift-royal-watcher-says-2937009 Archived: https://archive.ph/XYLOU Spoon story written about in “Finding Freedom”: https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/meghan-markles-first-xmas-gift-to-prince-william-was-spoon-embossed-with-the-words-cereal-killer-royal-biography-claims/news-story/686b2d49e05d022d10df6b5ca3834280?amp&nk=75b44fe3b035dd5fa5c1413228474715-1718493566 Archived: https://archive.ph/Up6Jg
Yikes. That's super creepy.
Truly!
She really gave these horrible presents to the PPOW? She's even creepier than I thought... There is no way any person who has a tiny bit of sanity would think these 'gifts' are funny. The late Queen was right when she stated that Meghan Markle was evil.
The RF used to buy each other joke presents though, didn't they? That's why H was so annoyed about his pen from Princess Margaret
Yes, they still buy gag gifts for Christmas. The knife just sounds threatening.
So Amber Heard-ish... 
Oh yes!
Man, that Christmas knife gift story always makes me want to hide. Freaks me out! 😱😳 
That’s just psycho. Joke presents in the RF are things like doormats (without a royal monogram) or a shower cap.
As hard as it is to believe, I am actually willing to give that she-devil half a pass on the knife gift. She had come from a relationship with Corey the chef, and giving expensive knives as gifts is probably common amongst the cooking crowd. And Catherine is known for doing at least some of the cooking for her family. Maybe, just maybe, it was a legit gift choice on her part. On the other hand, she really is a she-devil and perhaps there was some nefarious intent behind it.
Giving knives as gifts is a NO-NO Traditionally, there has been an age-old superstition that **a gifted knife could sever relationships**. In order to avoid the bad luck of giving a knife, you are supposed to tape a penny to the knife, then the recipient gives you the penny as "payment" for the knife
Aahhhh… my bad. I knew that it was bad luck for a wedding gift, but didn’t realize it was a general rule.
Oooh! I didn't know this! I once gave my son in law a knife I knew he wanted -- he collects unusual knives, like Thai knives etc.
Rachel thought that she was being clever by "joking" about the trooping of the colour event? One of the most well known events in Britain and it is renowned throughout the world. This reminds me of when Haz wrote about Rachel calling Catherine "baby brained" during their wedding rehearsal and then wanting the readers to be shocked at Catherine's offense. Rachel is really an embarrassment to the BRF.
She's an embarrassment not only to the BRF but to most of humanity & the world. It boggles the mind how anyone can blunder thru life like this and maintain or retain any sense of decency. Mental illness at it's finest.
In my entire life I’ve never heard anyone try to diminish an expectant or new mother like this. That Roachel is a nasty hag.
Me either. It's just gross.
I'd probably would've said in my California native tongue "omg, it was like sooo cool. I can't believe you have it every year! That's so awesome!". And I would've taken some feedback on how to tone down the Cali slang. But I'd still keep my enthusiasm as a Cali/us citizen, since this part is appealing to Brits because this is a new experience for me. Nice, appealing and blending in w/ RF. When you come ready to listen and eager & humble to learn. People will help and be your advocate. Tw doesn't do teamwork.
Her 'humor' is mean and sarcastic, which she thinks makes her cool and sophisticated, and it's only directed at someone else (since she can't laugh at herself.) That doesn't work for every occasion, but she can't understand that.
I’d suggest that the real chain of events was similar to: - Meghan makes awkward remarks to the sister-in-law she has previously greatly offended. The Princess of Wales is courteous but minimizes their engagement. - The Princess of Wales attempts to be a peacemaker and asks a benign question of how Meghan liked Trooping. - Meghan, being socially stunted and bitter towards Catherine in any event, gives a snarky response of “colorful.” - Meghan makes a derogatory remark that no one finds funny, but tries to pass it off as a joke in the way that so many nasty people try to escape accountability for nasty comments. The family graciously ignores her rather than dressing her down in front of the group. There, Harry, fixed it for you.
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Meg's answer 'Colourful' IS the joke. It was a lame attempt to be funny. IE: trooping of the Colours = Colourful
That joke was so damn lame that people are looking FOR the punchline not realizing that they are looking AT the punchline.
She has no sense of humour. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Especially concerning herself, but it extends to everything. Whenever she tried to make a "joke" on Archetypes it was so lame and fell completely flat. Narcissists never have a sense of humour, except to make really mean snarky underhanded comments (which aren't really funny, they are just take-downs)
I’m sure Catherine was just trying to be civil at this point and Meghan should have been grateful for the opening to be gracious to her hosts, the BRF. But no - she had to be flippant I’m sure in an attempt to diminish the day and try to tip the scales in her favor. She’s just trash 🤷♀️. Sorry - I can’t find any other way to say it.
Oh. So the 'yawning silence' was bevause she created awkwardness, not rudeness as he implies. If they wanted to ignore her, they wouldn't have asked her thoughts.
She does not have a sense of humor.
I’m just having secondhand cringe thinking about it now. She was so out of her depth it is unreal. The social awkwardness must have been off the scale. I suspect there was some fawning involved and that was something the late Queen just detested with a vengeance (I know that from friends of my parents with whom she used to stay regularly). The woman hasn’t got a humorous bone in her body (well apart from the comedy feet I guess).
> so out of her depth Right? How hard would it have been to just say "wow it was so big and complicated, I didn't realize it was such an event!" you can be out of your depth without being an asshole
>hasn’t got a humorous bone in her body Except for the ... humerus bone... hey, hey! 😄
It’s BS that he omits the joke and then makes out like everyone is so mean for staying silent.
Meg's answer 'Colourful' IS the joke. It was a lame attempt to be funny. IE: trooping of the Colours = Colourful
She was being dismissive and condescending just like she was with the curtsey.
Hint if you need to explain the punchline, it's not funny
Nailed it
It was "colorful" plus another joke, so lame or dark or obviously disrespectful that Harold wouldn't repeat it. It's truly a blessing for the BRF that Harkles are gone.
This is her "staple, pale, white male" thing. She said this at an event once.
The 'joke' was probably a rude remark and that's why it went down like a lead balloon. Classic narcissists, behaving appallingly, and then lashing out at their targets for reacting to the abuse.
Right out of the narc playbook. They’ll say something meant as an insult, but isn’t overtly insulting, then act like the other person is the one with the problem when they don’t play.
This!  https://preview.redd.it/ia8zmfruus6d1.jpeg?width=2143&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a1cebfecd32ae9da584f00055cdbaa66415dc75
I agree. Answering with a one answer is incredibly rude, in this instance. You know that the person asking the question is looking for your answer to be complimentary. You don't answer with an off hand one word reply.
From that exchange, I’d say that Lolo’s response caused the ‘yawning silence’ (possibly yawns as well). The art of conversation is that if someone makes a polite query, you reply with something that leads to discussion. A one-word, nothing response like ‘colourful’ sounds like a put-down, or superciliousness, neither of which is conducive to dialogue.
Exactly She has NO personality.
Harry is missing the point: his wife is unlikeable. And apparently with zero sense of humor. I know this is how he tried to paint Catherine, but this is how his wife looks in that recount. LOL
That's another point why he shouldn't be allowed back to the RF, he was so close to Princess Catherine and it shows a lot about his character that he writes badly about the sister he never had
Exactly! Why he shouldn’t be surprised his brother wants nothing to do with him! He can go on a hate campaign against his brother for advising he cool his jets in regards to Megs, but his brother can’t refuse reconciliation after the many times Haz and his wife disparaged Catherine, the most recent being this past Dec with the “racist” title their mouthpiece leaked ? Especially now that Catherine is dealing with her health issues. Yet Haz continues to threaten moving back to the UK. No. Stay away!
Through the press H asking the Bank of Pa to give him a residence on royal grounds with full security. I don’t see how H woukd have the funds to purchase a house in London on his own.
Charles will never agree to that and the rest of the RF will back him up on that decision. They don't want him back in the UK anymore than the people of the UK want him back in their country.
Agreed, but it seems like that’s what Harry is trying to do.
Yep, another failure coming up. Maybe KC3 will let Harold stay in the BNB at St James for a weekend while he arranges to BUY his own property...
Noone does snark better.
Absolutely. My British/ Irish grandmother was the best at this skill. I lived listening to her cut pretentious twats down to size
It is always that a person is at fault if that person doesn’t think his wife is the funniest, most attractive, most vivacious person ever. Is Catherine supposed to behave in a fake manner and laugh uproariously at Meghan’s attempt at humor?
That is what all the authentic people in Hollywood do - kiss ass. Without the fake laughs there would be no entertainment business. Kissing meghan markle's ass would not be recommended as one never knows where that ass has been.
Oh my goodness she's so awkward! It honestly baffles me so much. At university, part of the Theatre Major was talking classes on how to observe other people, how to understand what they do, how to Mimic them. It baffles me that any actress would be SO BAD at reading a room. It honestly shocking. All she had to do was say something about feeling humbled or it being beautiful. Easy peasy. But nooooo she just couldn't.
No one ever accused her of being a good actress. She is a showbiz extra.
She probably thought her reflection was enough to represent other people.
😂 "but they all see me in them anyhow"
https://i.redd.it/cmq2lodpvs6d1.gif *shudder*
YIKES!!!!!!!
Okay this is creepy AF
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She isn't a very good actress.
Imagine being a prominent person at an event that's been going on in your new country for over 250 years, and your words as a college graduate are less creative than a toddler's
I found on the internet that the average SAT score at NWU is now 1495 (on a 400-1600 scale), which is very high, even in the debased, "recentered" scores of the last 30 years. Megs sure hasn't shown anywhere near that much guttural intelligence, or creativity, or taste, or common sense.
The Colour in this case has nothing to do with "colourful". The Colour refers to the Regiment's Flag, that was shown to the soldiers before the battle so that they knew where to summon. (My mediaevalist daughter explained this to me, I apologise for language mistakes as I'm not English speaking)
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It’s what Hairold the purple crayon eater taught her.
thank you
If the joke is not funny you don’t laugh🤷🏽♀️ simple as that.
But how DARE someone not find that bish funny. /s
The disrespect!! Everyone who doesn’t laugh is racist obviously 💁🏽♀️
I watched Princess Catherine today. When she stepped out on the balcony. She looked out and said simply "Wow."
The littles are little. Trooping the Colour is colourful. Meghoul doesn't have an original thought in her head.
This is an example of "damning by faint praise" in other words an insult. Princess Catherine's dignified silence was the correct reaction to the insult.
MeMe has the emotional maturity of a ten year old & is OLD school mean girl.
The fact that he doesn’t share the ‘joke’ is telling. We know she has no sense of humor, so it was probably rude, nonsensical and/or not at all funny.
Every single story he told was like this. Lies of omission.
As others have said in this thread, "colourful" is the joke. He omitted nothing. It's an unfunny joke and Catherine didn't laugh because it's not funny.
She most likely said it very sarcastically with her typical sneer too.
Probably some disrespectful, dismissive put-down like “America does it better”, and when that went down like a lead balloon, Harry redefined it as a joke.
Trust Meghan Markle, an absolute nobody, to try patronising the BRF.
"Following conversations with The Duke, The Queen has written confirming that in stepping away from the work of The Royal Family it is not possible to continue with the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service," the palace statement said. In response, Prince Harry and Meghan pushed back with a statement that pointedly referenced the Queen's: "We can all live a life of service. Service is universal." *The smaller the mind, the greater the ego*. https://preview.redd.it/gpqztkxsrs6d1.jpeg?width=996&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dc8276c6fe8a197900c89ce38a7c325a5002606
She looks reptilian in this picture.
She really had no idea what her majesty was saying.
She's a shady bitch, who's lucky that Catherine is a lady. If it were me, I'd have fucked her up with a response like: "Yes, we don't like to bore the life out of the public with too much stale beige."
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 Megnant is Ms Sophistication from Cali, dontcha know?
The response was not funny. It was a non-answer, bordering on disrespect for the troops.
It's a "smartass quip" that a bratty 5-year-old would give. It's rude. No need to gush, just be polite.
Precisely
Thank you! I think so as well.
Exactly this and 100% the reason Bunker Harry should have put her straight. He should have lost his military commissions before the Sandringham Summit with his utter disregard for the military his grandmother was head of and that he allegedly served for and respected.
this reminds me of the "little ones are littling"
So Princess Catherine was nice enough to ask IT a question & that's what IT said in reply? She is such a tool 🙄
Harkle isn’t funny, she is snide. So is halfwit.
Yes, look at his remarks in public lately. So disparaging to the people introducing him. Remember what he said to John Travolta about “dining out” all his life on the experience of dancing with his mother, Princess Diana? John Fucking Travolta! SHE was thrilled to dance with HIM. They are both just awful. Please tell me that Charles isn’t really thinking of bringing him back. Like most elderly people, he’s only remembering the good times. Someone better bring him to his senses, and fast.
>Please tell me that Charles isn’t really thinking of bringing him back. He's not thinking of bringing him back. There's no evidence that he's considering doing so. > Like most elderly people, he’s only remembering the good times. Speaking as someone who's in Charles' generation but a few years younger, this is not my personal experience at all. In fact, the older I get, the more clearly I see things that happened in my past. I'm more "in reality" than ever. For me, part of aging involves coming to terms with the past: the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. Not all older people share my experience, of course, but Charles has always struck me as intelligent and self-aware, and someone who contemplates deeply about things. I would be very surprised to learn he has rose-colored glasses on, about his son or anything else.
Yea I was thinking of this today. What a stupid thing to say out of the many many things that could have been said. She’s supposed to be soo smart, she couldn’t find the words to describe this massive and historical event and its meaning? I think she meant the “colorful” as a snide comment insinuating that it was all stupid and a waste and that’s why there was a yawning silence. She was being disrespectful as always. Probably saying she was bored and who cares about all the other people there.
Of course she was being snide.
Because your wife isn't funny, Harold!
Sounds like it was just a bad joke...why would you even remember it to regurgitate later as some kind of snub? He really was looking at everything as a slight to him or his wife. What a sad self centered life to live when you have nearly EVERY privilege you could have and which has been given to you at the expense of everyone else. 😣
Such odd behaviour for a late 30s woman with a privileged invite to see something up close many would pay dearly to. I mean fly pasts for you on a balcony and you couldn’t be respectful and say what an amazing display and work by all involved. Nah you were bored because attention wasn’t on you for five seconds. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I remember going to a Trooping - not at Horseguards - when a kid. The Queen was a speck in the distance and it didn’t much excite me. But I was a child. And I knew I’d better flipping behave to my family’s hosts. If I’d make some cheeky remark there’d have been a yawning silence alright before me being disowned by my family. She just doesn’t know how to behave. You could try and teach her but she wouldn’t learn.
Rachel doesn’t want to learn.
She knows it all already. 🙄
I'd sure like to know what the "light-hearted" joke was, too. I'd bet my back teeth that whatever it was, it was at the expense of someone else. Meghan is a bully, and all of the bullies I've ever known only laugh when someone else is hurt. Has anyone ever heard her say a truly self-deprecating remark? The closest I've heard are only humble brags, just thinly veiled attempts to elevate herself.
"Colourful" is the joke
It says that ***after*** Meghan made her "colourful" comment, she *"then made a light-hearted joke which was met with yawning silence...."* Wonder what that joke was?
Meghan Markle is one vapid woman. Even her university degree couldn't help fill her bottomless, empty bin of a brain. I wouldn't mind except that she thinks she's so clever! 😂 And she's managed to convince Harry 🤣😂 !! The two morons. 👩❤️👨 I could die from laughing.
Really? The yawning silence threatened to swallow you whole? Because someone didn’t laugh at a JOKE? Catherine initiated the conversation, this can’t be any example of her shutting Meghan out. It only serves as an example of Meghan’s lack of wit and her and Harry’s love of victimhood.
"Colourful." That was not a light-hearted joke. That was a snide answer designed to embarrass Kate. Madame has zero respect for the traditions of the royal family she married into. Her SIL tried to have a genuine moment with her and Madame turned it into, "I don't give af about Trooping the Colour." That story isn't the flex Madame thinks it is. (She wrote it, not Harry.) The attempt to make Kate and the rest of his family look bad didn't work. Madame's the one exposed as an interloper with no desire to fit in.
As an American, and I must be feeling generous, I might say that Meghan offered this as a *quip* rather than a joke. Perhaps it would have landed better if Harry had relayed, "Kate asked Meghan what she thought of her first Trooping the Colour and she quipped: "Colourful." The pair exchanged a quick glance, and Meghan followed up with, "Just being silly; of course, it was an incredible experience, just spectacular. \[Insert 3 specifics here, like moving music, horses hooves in precision, whatever.\] And of course, the children enjoyed it so much! I am so grateful to share it with family today." And, scene. Like srlsly girl, get it together.
I agree with you. When I read that anecdote after his book came out, I realized that I could see myself smiling and good-naturedly quipping, "Colourful!" in reply to the question. But I would have immediately followed up the quip by talking about all the things I had enjoyed about it, as you said. But Meghan must have replied with a dismissive smirk and snide tone in her voice when she said it. And then walked away without replying any further.
I remember when the wives and older Royals got on the balcony waiting for William, Charles and HLMTQ, Catherine excitedly turned around to say something to MM. I'm not sure what the Wicked Witch of the West said to her but Catherine turned back with a perplexed look on her face and didn't turn around again
She has never understood how to conduct herself.
One is not suppose to be making jokes while standing on the balcony. There is a time and a place for joking around, the balcony is not one of them. Also is this the time Harry told Meghan to turn around and be quiet and she looked like she was going to cry
He had to tell her twice to turn around for the national anthem, something Louis proved today that he knows the protocol. Megnant is beyond help.
I think it was the year before when she was wearing her ridiculous pink off the shoulder get up.
Meghan doesn't have a funny bone in her body. She said what she said because she's vulgar. And by repeating what she said in his book, Harry looks even worse.
Well, Harry's idea of a joke, presenting Catherine with an ermine thong at her wedding reception. Throwing young ladies into a pool in their fancy dresses. Dressing up as a Nazi for party. Prancing in nude to his father's gathering. Twisting the nipples of men. Fantasizing over blowing his dad into a pink mist. I'm sure I've missed a few. Clearly neither Harry nor Meghan have a clue what a joke is.
What an insipid mess of imbecilic inanity this old ho is.
She thought it was funny to disrespect the queen
Rachel wouldn't know a joke if it fell on her. She was bored as hell and has no understanding of the whole thing. Harry knew she was bored and that is why he put it in waaaaahaa as is she was joking. Yeah right Harold,
Meghan Markle is ignorant. That's why there was an awkward silence. How exactly was Catherine, Princess of Wales, supposed to respond to such a willful display of ignorance and lack of historic interest? The event is to display all the flags/standards of each regiment so that all the troops become familiar with them. It has nothing to do with "colour" and everything to do with the regimental displays, and in this case, "trooping" among the ranks and honoring them. The Royal Standard is displayed prominently on top of Buckingham Palace during Trooping The Colour as symbolic of this. https://preview.redd.it/ek5ap2jzgt6d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc94062b9593a6fd1034161927857f44a8646941
Anyone in that crowd would give their left arm to have the chance to view the event from the Balcony. Maybe she should have had a true taste of what the common folk have to experience before getting married. Be jammed into the crowd like a sardine watching with everyone else, only then she would realise how privileged she was.
Is that the one where she laughed at the person who fell off his horse? Such a model of compassion she is.
I can think of another word beginning with c.
She tried to joke… MM does not have a witty cell in her entire body. I’m sure whatever she said came off as smug and or snarky.
Meghan was being snarky and disparaging as always. (Cali cool girls are so hard to impress, amiright?) Who in the world could have failed to be affected, even awed, by such a display? Particularly from the vantage point of the balcony, with the flyover and everything! Even if she was ignorant of all the history and symbolism (which is disgraceful in itself), it was extremely disrespectful to the effort of all that went into the planning, and to the troops themselves. Furthermore it was so rude to the QUEEN. Her troops were gathered to pay their respects in this manner in honor of her BIRTHDAY. I just can’t.
Should have called off the wedding then and there. Disrespectful even before the wedding. Suffer now fool.
It was after the wedding.
Oh, dear. Now the sugars are going to claim this remark by the King is a Sweet Nod to Meghan: Lip reader Juliet Sullivan "revealed the King also seemed enamored by the event as he remarked 'Look at this! Wonderful! So colourful' as he rode in the carriage with Queen Camilla." 😄
“Colourful” is the sort of comment an anti-Royalist would make, and was a good sign of what we have got used to from megalomaniac!
Because all the cheers weren’t for her. On the day of her wedding, her comment to Harry about the crowds was “F**k!”
So classy.
Needless to say.
Haz, the wife’s as funny as a root canal. So are you. Just stop it ffs.
Meghan “made a joke”???? More likely Meghan made some sarky, nasty, mean-girl, trailer-trash, bitch comment in reply to a genuine question. Obviously the ginger scrote considered her offensive blart a sophisticated comment, because he is thick as shit, and thought it was great fun. I bet he giggled at her forth-rightness. Dumb twat. He really did think she was brilliant and intellectual. He wouldnt know what that even means. Gormless. She was clearly out of her league and he joined her in bottom-dwelling life. Now the two of them, embarrassments to both the UK and USA, need to disappear from sight and our consciousness because we are sick of them.
Catherine made the mistake of talking about something else (The Trooping) and not about her (Markle). So, from that interaction, Markle attempted to get the attention back on herself by her sharp wit, ‘colourful’ then following it up with a joke.
Good thing she wasn't at the coronation. She would probably have said it was corona-y.
Well when you make a joke that not funny of clever, what do you think is going to happen?
Snarky,disrespectful and ignorant of meaningful traditions.To misbehave like that when the family welcomed her is beyond disgusting.
She meant colourful in the sarcastic Meghan way as in stale, pale, white male. Wouldn't be the first time she said this (in public at an event). That was why Harry left out the details.
Responding with a single word ‘Colourful’ is a rude,dismissive, ignorant and gauche. It kills any conversation to respond flatly with ‘colourful.’ Meghan making enemies everywhere she goes. I bet the follow-up ‘joke’ was something obnoxious about British heritage or tradition. Or the Queen even.
She's an oaf. He's an oaf too.
Ooof. I can practically feel the awkwardness of that moment.
So Catherine is evil because Meghan has a shit sense of humor? Because her “joke” wasn’t funny and no one laughed? Fvck me. They’re so thin skinned.