- 'Like a Prayer', that's how Madonna's success began 30 years ago
- Now it is up to Meghan Markle, but before she already lived the harassment of the British yellowish newspapers which would be her mother-in-law, Lady Di, Sarah Ferguson and Kate Middleton. The Duchess of Sussex suffers so much that her husband, Prince Harry, has denounced one of them and recalled in a letter how her mother ended up, killed in an accident in Paris when the paparazzi persecuted her.
Except in the bilges of social networks, Meghan Markle was perceived as a breath of fresh air . It was not a good omen. Diana Spencer and Sarah Ferguson had also been a breath of fresh air; but as the former secretary of Lady Di Patrick Jephson warned, `` against what is presupposed, the royal family does not necessarily need fresh air. They have a lot on their farm in Scotland, there is all the fresh air in the world up there. ''
When, in May 2018, Harry and Meghan got married, the British press greeted the couple as a compendium of real glamor and modernity. They saw them as if there was only a thin sheet of tissue paper between them and the sky. They married like melon and ham, go. The thrill of a divorced American woman of color sneaking into the royal family had reached the boiling point and in syrupy reports the tabloids referred to her `` radiant regal beauty. ''
The girl liked it because it was the epitome of all social changes. It was as if on that bend in the road Meghan had an appointment with hope and had arrived at the right time. A few months later, when the couple waited for the birth of their first child, the molasses was over. Meghan didn't have to sharpen her ear to hear the croaking of the parrots and the swishing fingerboard of the toads. It seemed that they had perched it on a pedestal just to have it more within reach. The Duchess of Sussex went from heroine to villain of the tabloids , who orchestrated sometimes racist, sometimes classist and almost always defamatory campaigns. They spread rumors about her cousin donna's behavior: that if she signed autographs, that if she fired three babysitters in just one month, that if due to her abruptness with the service, the employees gave her two motes: Megain (I win) and La difficult duquesa. In addition, according to the tabloids, he kept greengrocer fights with his father, disappeared on a private plane and spent so much money to sink a ship. They blamed her even for Serena Williams not winning the US Open.
To such an extent Meghan has become the target of the most bilious darts of the tabloids that the Daily Mail published in January a report with this delusional title: `` How Meghan's favorite avocado snack contributes to the violation of human rights , drought and murder. '' The cahier de doléances continues to grow and each step of the duchess is a faux pas. The subtext of each new onslaught is that Meghan is uncontrollable and must be put in place. Even in times of #MeToo, a woman of character in royalty is enough to boil the blood in the newsrooms of Fleet Street. What they drop is that Meghan's behavior, as trivial as it might seem, could grind the state machinery, finely calibrated to fit the ancestral monarchy into a parliamentary democracy. Total, that not only would he be ruining the world for eating avocados, but also the Commonwealth for not inviting journalists to the baptism of his son, Archie Harrison.
For the British who have grown up seeing what happens to women who marry the Windsor, that bullying may be miserable , but tolerable because the privilege of becoming royal becomes a toll. And the one that doesn't want heat that doesn't get into the kitchen.
The stoic emperor Marco Aurelio maintained that nothing happens to anyone who is not prepared to cope with it and Meghan has learned to put on her professional mask and whatever the shock of her mood seems the serene imperturbability of a lama subjected to torment; not even Sherlock Holmes, scrutinizing his impassive face with a rigid upper lip, would have been able to sense the procession inside. Meghan is not the nicknamed Lady Di of her first nuptial bars , every feature of her face speaks of thrust, of conquest, of decision. Of course, no one is immune to the long despair of doing nothing right and neither is Meghan, who has sued the Sunday The Mail on Sunday for publishing a private letter that the Duchess sent to her father.
It is not something new. In 1993, Diana of Wales sued the Mirror for posting images of her exercises in a gym. That decision marked a before and after in the attitude of the royal family, reluctant to counterattack the red tops - as they call the intrusive sensationalist newspapers in the United Kingdom - as basic in British life as extravagance, fish and chips and rain on alternate days. The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Mail or Daily Express are stuttering libelos that preach morality, but deontology and empathy are as foreign as gills to mammals : they are things that do not belong to their nature, which is basically the one of the hyenas. Before Meghan, the fetidity of her breath has reached all the commoners who have married the royal family, who had to keep quiet to live under pressure and face the blows. A curse that is not entirely comparable to that of the multiple queens of Henry VIII, but that contributed to the martyrdom of Lady Di.
She too, at first, when she was still Shy Di (the shy Diana), was spoiled by the British press; but they began to skin it for their solo getaways to pop shows and discos, and for their choice of companions such as businessman Peter Stringfellow, dancer Wayne Sleep, actress Pamela Stephenson or singers Elton John and Boy George. "Beyond the brightness," the headlines said, "Diana is attracted to a sordid world." After the announcement of their separation, the princess became the definitive prey of heartless paparazzi, who harassed her as starving jackals. A particularly painful bullying episode took place when, after the funeral of his grandmother Lady Ruth Fermoy, he took Harry and William to see Jurassic Park and, dejected, spat these words at a photographer: '' You make my life a hell '' '.
The stolen photos of Lady Di
Photographers Mark Saunders and Glenn Harvey collected in the book Dicing with Di the most controversial stolen photos of their careers, which sometimes led to direct confrontations with the princess: Diana sneaking the married Oliver Hoare to Kensington Palace for a drink After a candlelit dinner, Diana with Will Carling during a secret visit to Twickenham, Diana skiing, Diana in the West Indies, in New York, in Washington, in Colorado, in Martha's Vineyard, in Paris or Florida. The editors never had enough of a Diana who lived distressed, humiliated and bitter. And the photographers made box. Jason Fraser, one of his most relentless hunters, gained more than a million pounds by shooting Diana with Dodi Al-Fayed.
Diana's turbulent relationship with journalists began in 1980 when, as Carlos's girlfriend, she accepted that a photographer photograph her while working at the Young England nursery. He did not notice that sunlight shone through his skirt, making it completely transparent. Years later, the pain, frustration and anger she felt when she was abandoned by a rancid institution that had courted her to join her ranks, led her to turn to journalists to defend herself against a rich and powerful enemy . Diana understood the power of the press to impose her story and change perceptions, although she did not notice that she was climbing on the back of the tiger that would end up breaking it up. The life of the Princess of Wales was braided with the press like mistletoe with poplar, a symbiotic match, but for her destructive: as the sorcerer's apprentice, unleashed a beast impossible to tame. When he died in Paris in August 1997, a jury ruled that he was `` killed '' because of the collusion of the driver's imprudence and the harassment of the paparazzi.
The case of Sarah Ferguson
Although with less typographical display, her sister-in-law Sarah Ferguson (married in 1986 with Prince Andrew) was subjected to a similar foal of torture. In a sapphire pun, The News of the World called the Duchess of York Duchess of Pork (pig), alluding to its weight (otherwise perfectly average). Speaking to the Gemma & Emma podcast in 2017, Fergie recalled one of the worst headlines she had to suffer: `` 82% of Britons would rather sleep with a goat than with Fergie. '' Her marriage to Prince Andrew ended in January 1992, but seven months later the Mirror showed her topless at full speed while the American John Bryan kissed her feet. The favorite game of the tabloids was (it still is) `` the cat fight '', which consists of facing one woman in the family against another. Despite their proven friendship with Diana, alleged wars between Fergie and Lady Di were published.
The tabloids and trolls claim pro domo sua that media harassment is a rite of initiation for royalty. Perhaps that is why Meghan has not been able to avoid being compared to her sister-in-law, Kate, who is defined as impeccable and "born to be a mother." On the contrary, when talking about Meghan, this phrase attributed to Prince Philip of Edinburgh is often quoted: `` One should only go out with actresses, not marry them. ''
After Markle's wedding, an alleged enmity between her and Middleton dominated the press and for months they were accused of opening a crack between their husbands. Before the target nested on Meghan's back, Kate was in focus. During most of his courtship with Prince William, he was portrayed in tabloids as Waity Katie, a sad figure desperate to reach the throne at all costs. Her alleged lack of professional ambitions was a cause for mockery, and a photo wearing a transparent dress in a fashion college parade served to challenge her worth as a future queen.
Camilla also had her thing
Also Camilla, especially Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall after her wedding with Prince Charles, knows one or two things about insults, insults and other niceties. As Carlos's ex-girlfriend turned into a lover, turned into a girlfriend and second wife, his thing is only comparable to what happened Wallis Simpson: pure unbridled hatred. Buckingham's struggle to achieve respect for the woman Diana called the `` third person '' in her marriage has been epic though sterile, because the journalistic labels of `` adulterous diabolic '', `` destroyer of homes '' or `` Britain's most hated woman '' escort her like an infamous shadow, especially since the posthumous canonization of Lady Di.
If the treatment of Meghan in the last months tells us something, it is that to live is to see return and that the tabloids have changed little since the tragic death of Princess Diana. Unfortunately for Markle, until Prince George (the firstborn of the Dukes of Cambridge) begins to have girlfriends in about a decade, there is no one left to divert attention. Harry, her husband, has come out in her defense with an open letter of 570 words: `` I have seen what happens when someone I love becomes merchandise to the point that it is no longer treated or seen as a person. I lost my mother and now I see my wife being a victim of the same powerful forces, '' he writes irritated, angry, pissed off and bounced, as Casares would have expressed in his synonyms dictionary. As if the night were around his head when, when he was 20, he left a paparazzo with a broken lip: perhaps he had acted remissly by not strangling him. You leave these things for later and then regret it .
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