Now this, Mr Claus, is a well considered point that is well put and sounds a reasonable argument. Allow me to flesh out one or two points to put my view into perspective:
First - my only source of news in the past 10 years or so is the BBC app - which I see as being only slightly right of centre, compared with the billionaire owned rags that normally stir up rabid hatred of some poor sod to distract the plebs from the important stuff they should be noticing. The BBC has outlined (in as factual and unbiased was as is possible while a tory government threatens to cut its funding if they aren't pro-establishmrnt) that she wanted to leave the UK to avoid the glare of the media. My initial impressions and doubts were that I sympathised as undoubtedly her husband was well aware of the damage those greedy pro-government billionaires could do in chasing a scoop. But then I wondered - she must have known all this before she went ahead with a very public and very expressive fairy tale wedding- so my doubts as to her character were sown, not by the vitriol in the red tops, but, as I always do, in questioning motives.
I never read the red tops or any other newspaper, but I'm not being andvi catch their ridiculous, hyperbolic and misleading headlines. Their content means zero to me, it has never been a part of forming my opinion.
I expected that after all the fuss about moving to the US or Canada or wherever she went to seek a quiet life away from royalty that if her motive was genuine then we would never hear from them again. Harry, after all, is doubtfully related to Charles Windsor if the photos comparing him with Diana's "special confident" and possible real father, are to he taken seriously. I'm ambivalent about royalty, have no bias and no axe to grind - but I like to observe occasionally.
But then the BBC talks factually about all the special interviews the woman sold to media companies in the US. This was distasteful and hypocritical when juxtaposed with her cover story of getting away from the limelight. I would naturally distrust and dislike anybody so dishonest and greedy - plus then you can add to it the absolute distaste for anybody washing their dirty linen in public. I would say exactly the same whether the person doing this were black, white male, female or any other new gender. It is the factually reported acts and plausible the motivations that lead me to have an opinion on MM.
And its true I know very little of her - I don't generally talk about people or have much interest in them, I have doughty more interest in events and reserve most of my interest for ideas and humour. Its also true that I'm very happy to he corrected with a well reasoned argument, by somebody who knows about her, to say I have misjudged her. But you know what? I'm not vehemently pro or against the woman- the thread asked an opinion and I casually gave mine. Its not even anything more than a passing opinion. For some on the internet though it seems that expressing that opinion puts me in the same box as someone who is in to strapping kittens onto a crucifix and burning it on somebody's front lawn.
