Why Do You Think That The Duchess Of Sussex Is Treated Differently To The Duchess Of Cambridge For Exactly The Same Behaviour?

[sp1814]

When it’s laid out like this, it seems pretty shocking.

What do you think the reasons are?

https://twitter.com/snigskitchen/status/1216763343068942336?s=21

[naomi24]

The two don't behave in the same way.

[TheDevil]

I personally think that, The dutchess of Cambridge is married and courted the heir to the throne. Papers sell because she will be our future queen as you could say, so people are interested in their life.

Meghan and Harry? Less so. They are not relevant. Their child is not relevant so no one really cares too much about reading every little detail, because they or their child will never be relevant in the royal family. So, to help the papers sell stories they make it edgy by either being defamatory or putting a spin on things for the shock factor.

[youngmafbog]

What rolocks you speak, they dont behave the same at all.

Twitter ha been shown to be totaly out of touch with the majority too.

Of course for me this is all great. Another nail in the RF.

After the Queen goes then it should be the end of the lot of them.

[TheDevil]

Naomi why would two people behave in the same way? They are different people, in different positions with different levels of importance.

People on't act the same, we're individuals.

[sp1814]

TheDevil

The way that the same behaviour is framed completely differently though.

I mean, even the baby bump!

It’s only when you compare the stories side by side that you can see how the way they are treated for the same thing is skewed.

The off-the-shoulder dress. On one it’s marvellous, and on the other it’s breaking royal protocol!

[naomi24]

TD, //Naomi why would two people behave in the same way?//

Why are you asking me? I didn't suggest they do. The OP did. Ask him.

[TheDevil]

The OP is referring to actions like holding their bump, or wearing specific colours etc. In that aspect they are gettin scrutinised for the same behaviour. To think or compare behaviour outside of the OP is moot.

[TheDevil]

"The off-the-shoulder dress. On one it’s marvellous, and on the other it’s breaking royal protocol!"

Yeah, I think that's the difference between being married to the direct heir and being married to the 6th in line bachelor boy.

[sp1814]

TheDevil

I think naomi24 was responding to my point in the OP. It’s true that they don’t behave in the same way - but when they do, they’re reported completely differently.

I should’ve made that clearer.

The question is why?

Do the papers need a ‘baddie’ like they had with Mrs Simpson in the 50s, Princess Margaret in the 70s and Princess Michael of Kent in the 80s?

[youngmafbog]

moot is it Spath?

[TheDevil]

The Lilly of the valley one is particularly eye opening.

[naomi24]

Well it would be 'moot'. Anything that doesn't align with your thoughts has always been 'moot'.

[sp1814]

naomi24

This could be sidetracked easily - in the link, when you look at the stories side-by-side, do you think there’s a difference in the way the two women are presented?

If so, why do you think?
that is?

[royfromaus]

Because the UK is infested with racists.


There, the answer you craved and wanted.

[naomi24]

SP, I think it's because Meghan behaves like a diva - and anyone who does that is likely to encounter criticism - albeit at times unwarranted. Some elements of the media have a tendency to pick holes at any opportunity. Witness their treatment of Mr Trump. Wrong whatever he does - and he's not a member of an ethnic minority - which in Meghan's case is what I think you're getting at.

[sp1814]

royfromaus

Surely it can’t be that simple.

If you look at the news stories in the link, it simply cannot be her race that has leadto sone elements of the press to report on her with such obvious bias.

People would see through it instantly.

[sp1814]

naomi24

Are you sure she actually behaves like a diva?

Could it be because this is what the very sane papers tell you?

Remember that story about the Sussexes saying an edict telling locals around their home not to ask for selfies or photographs of the couple.

Totally made up.

What other diva moments are there?

I wonder how many of them originate from news desks?

[naomi24]

//People would see through it instantly. //

Anyone with any sense does see through such claims easily.

[naomi24]

SP, //Are you sure she actually behaves like a diva? //

Are you sure she doesn't?

[ludwig]

First of all, it's nothing to do with race (except perhaps in the minds of racists).

They've taken a dislike to MM and she has been cast in the role of pantomime villain. There's also an element of her only being the wife of the 'spare' so she's fair game to 5l@g off like any other celebrity whereas Kate being the future queen, is saintly and can do no wrong.

If anything goes wrong with that marriage she'll come in for the same treatment. The same thing happened with princess Di and Sarah Ferguson.