Well, time will tell.
For the record, I used to also defend Angelina Jolie, when so many here were scathing about her, saying she is a man stealer, (like Brad was innocent in the whole thing) and she'd mess him up in the end. I used to say how she had grown & changed after going to Cambodia, adopted Maddox, got involved in human rights, donated a lot to charity WITH Brad. That she was different and they really seemed to fit together, having the same values.
We all know how that turned out. She did try to mess him up, take away his rights to see his children and make it seem like he was an unfit parent and the FBI got involved in the situation.
I must have a soft (blind?) spot for people publicly doing human rights stuff and getting involved with charities. When, for all I know, once they are at home, they could go around kicking puppies.
I was no great lover of Meghan in the beginning of her relationship with Harry. But not for the reasons of most dissenters here. It was because she was messing up one of my favorite TV shows, Suits!
I get that people seem to think she gives off a phony vibe and is disingenuous. But, she's not a great actress on the show either. Not necessarily disparaging her. She literally is a B-level actress, on a B-level
cable TV show, on a B-level cable network. She's no Meryl Streep or Cate Blanchett or Sandra Bullock. So, I'm kind of used to limited acting and range of emotions.
7 years ago, Suits was put on the USA Network to move that channel away from their 24 hr marathon of non-stop, Law & Order, reruns. NBC owns the network and wanted to introduce shorter, edgier series that they couldn't get away with on their major network. So, they introduced their "summer TV series" as I call them.
Suits, In Plain Sight, &
Royal Pains, were their first 3 series they aired. They really did change the identity of the USA Network.
I watched them all.
Gave me a summer fix as the major networks were on hiatus. Turns out
Suits was fantastically written, tight, sharp, intelligent. It's about 2 male attorneys who start out as genius mentor/student, then become colleagues, then strong BFFs. 4 other people fill out the cast in their office.
ALL the women who work on Suits, whether in that office or show up as GFs ALL wear quite sexy, revealing clothes - that one would never wear in a law firm or in court. But, these women do and get away with it.
Meghan's character, "Rachel" was the young, sexy, smart paralegal. Her character & function on the show was for the second male lead, Mike, to first be interested in her, they flirt back & forth for a few seasons, then fall in love. They had a few steamy sex scenes together and once she appears in only a bath towel when Mike gets home, or something like that. Meghan, starting on the show, fully knew what the character was about, and what was required, how she was there to sell sex to the younger male viewers on the show - just like she was cute & sexy on
Deal, or No Deal. They progressed Rachel by having her go to law school & then work to ward passing the bar, etc. But, again, Megan is a B-level actress. She was good in this role on
this show, and for what the show required of her.
By season 4(?) Mike finally proposes to Rachel. YAY!!!
Probably the next season or so, those characters would have gotten married.
Only about that time, in real life, Meghan starts dating Prince Harry. Harry still had kind of a partying reputation. So, I certainly didn't take their relationship seriously when I heard about it. I actually
thinking it would end eventually. But, then the rumors came out how she was spending more time in London and Harry in Toronto and it was becoming serious between them.
And I *think* the producers of Suits, didn't know what to do with "Rachel". Is Meghan going to stay or not stay? She was a key character because of her relationship with the second lead. They can't just have her disappear or leave. Rachel was integral to MIKE. If she left and HOW she left would affect Mike and how he moves forward emotionally on the show. And they couldn't just kill her off.
And at that time, I think the 2 leads had it in their contract that they don't have to film so many hours. Which meant they'd be on less time on the show. But, their characters, for 4 years were usually filmed
together. That was what made the show so great, their friendship as BFFs. It was 90% of the show. Like Sherlock & Watson. So, having them on less, meant they needed film them
separately, in different scenes to fill in the air time with one or the other.
So Mike had more scenes with Rachel. A Rachel the producers didn't know what to do with. PLUS, it was obvious,
Meghan really didn't want to be on the show. Meghan started playing Rachel in a whiny and complaining way about everything. And she needed the producers to cut her sexy scenes with Mike down to just a kiss here and there. AND she wanted her character to have more substance. So Mike & Rachel started having a lot of fights & disagreements. And Rachel's wardrobe changed to more demure.
Meghan also couldn't just leave the show, because that would signal to all the media that things were becoming really serious with Harry. And Buckingham Palace needed to be the ones to state any "official relationship" between them. I'm not the only one who noticed all this. There is a whole Reddit forum on Suits where they were complaining about how the show had changed and about Meghan & Harry messing up a great show, along with the hiring of new bad writers by then.
I did also roll my eyes when Harry & Meghan first got engaged. But what turned me around to give her a chance was hearing about her background and how she had done so much human rights stuff on her own
before ever meeting Harry. And that she was also using her fame for good causes, in addition to how to live a fancy life. I gave her points for camping out in Botswana for a week(?) on their second date with no running water or toilet.
I couldn't do it! Prince or no prince!
They just seem to have a lot in common. Does she crave being in the spotlight? Yes. One has to be to be in the Royal family. I once saw an interview with George Clooney, where he said any GF of his HAS to be comfortable being in the public eye, because that's his life.
I also remember the early days, after Diana first got engaged. She used to shy away from the camera and run. And Charles had to coach her NOT to do that. That she had to accept them being part of her life from now on.
What I am concerned about is whether Meghan uses her new fame to continue to promote good causes? On the one hand, I don't care how phony/disingenuous she may seem at times. She wasn't a
great actress when she had to
act. And this is the biggest "character" of her life. So, I'm not expecting much in that regard.
Does she make Harry
happy? Can she continue to? Especially in their private life?
Will she be able to handle constantly being berated by "The Firm" when she is doing something they don't approve of? Will she be able to accept that long term? She has had her own voice for a long time, promoting her own causes. She gave up her social media accounts, but that was really kind of short term, in the perspective of things. Can she handle the Palace telling her what she can & can't talk about, what she can do and not do?
Sarah Ferguson couldn't. She said she was liked in the beginning because she was a breath of fresh air. They liked that she was spunky & sassy. But, later, they'd haul her in EVERY WEEK for being too spunky & sassy. She & Diana giggled too much. She'd be too off the cuff, saying the wrong thing. She wore appalling clothes at times. She gained weight as she got depressed & anxious and the media turned on her, calling her porky Fergie.
Will Meghan be able to last due to all those pressures, scrutiny, rules? I hope so. I want Harry to be happy, for all that he's gone though after losing Diana, and being lost for quite some years afterward.
But as I said, I defended Angelina too, when I thought she had grown & changed.
I only "liked" this because this board doesn't have a "LOVE" button! 
if they didn't think the whole series was going to end this season anyway with both lead actors contracts up. But, probably the USA Network though they could still cash in on people tuning in just to watch the series Meghan was on, and get them hooked om the reruns. So they are continuing with a Season 8.
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