Meghan Markle’s unending saga is a vivid example of what’s wrong with the social media generation…

Has she done anything that many others before her haven‘t? The simple answer is: NO.

So, why is there so much ire?

There is nothing complicated about the Meghan Markle story or saga. Yes, some sad twists and turns concerning her father and half-siblings going on ’celebrity’ shows and the people who continue to exploit them to get bizarre stories and rants out of them. All very bizarre, given they claim she had blanked them for years – so, how are they credible sources? But then, credibility is no longer an issue these days right?

Would Markle have gone for Harry if he was just your everyday brit? we all know the answer to that question, but it should not lead to the concentrated public vilification she now faces, as what she did has been done several times before. Her audacity, in trying to ’sort our royal family out’ is what quickly became unacceptable and it didn’t matter much, how she went about it.

We are in a society today, where people leak sex tapes and the publicity propels the supposed victim to superstardom and £billions. You can put anything out there and you’ll become a social media infuencer, and having a crowd behind you, for whatever reason, is now a huge money-spinner as the morals of advertising has never been about reasons but numbers.

It is such an unfortunate situation and its conclusion is inevitable as Prince Harry will be back in the royal family fold sooner or later and the only question is whether Meghan comes back with him, eat some humble pie, accept her role is to fit in with what she chose to get involved with – an institution that has been there for centuries and imperfect or not, it won’t be Meghan Markle sorting it out! Whoever Markle’s advisors are, they couldn’t have done a worse job of it! Even if she is just headstrong and ignoring their advice. This notion of leaks or intentional leaks or letters drafted with or without the knowledge that it may or will be leaked etc., is a worn-out episode and the entire sorry saga is just awful. Now, children are involved, and although it is safe to say that those kids are always going to be well-provided-for, this is all so avoidable.

I am not sure what people call ”black” these days or how it is defined, but personally, I do not see how Meghan Markle is black? she is not. She is a product of a black mother and a white father. Any un-royal-like behaviour exhibited by her, is also not due to her supposedly being black. She simply isn’t from within those circles and no matter how hard they train her, some of these things are not taught, they are ingrained and if you aint got it, you aint got it.

The question of whether or not the royal family should modernise or whether or not the whole arrangement has passed it’s use by date is a very separate matter, and one that regardless of which side you’re on, majority are agreed that we (brits) do not want it addressed in this manner and certainly not while Queen Elizabeth II is on the throne. It cannot possibly be social media via a girl who chose to sign-up for the trappings to sort our royal family out.

But the daily articles trying to paint Markle as an opportunist and all that, is just tiring: is it not an opportunity for anyone to get hitched to Prince William or Harry? of course it is – regardless of who you are – rich, poor or even if a member of any other royal family, it still takes you to a different level. So, it is indeed stating the obvious, in trying to continually make markle out as some desperado who was only after a meal-ticket.

I do not see any half-way house here. Harry & Meghan only have one source of income, which is entirely tied to them being part of the royal family – whether that income comes from netflix deals or Oprah Winfrey exposes, it is still all down to the same thing. So, even if they renounce their royal titles and say they are now just every day citizens, the only paycheque they will get from any source will still only be tied to their past – even if it is a tv deal to provide commentary of a football game. So, this is all just a pointless saga.

Has irreparable damage been done? I don’t think so. As stated above, there’s nothing Meghan’s done that’s not been done before. And if you’re one of those who claim she is black and all that, well, her being in or out of the royal family won’t change any of that. There’s a footballer in the UK right now, who gets racist chants cast at him because his granddad was black. The chap himself is as white as Wayne Rooney, but someone dug up the fact that his granddad was black and now, he (the footballer) is black, even though physically white! what a laughable world we live in. Almost as laughable as the incident I read this morning of an American Olympian of Asian descent who recently won a gold medal for America at the olympics, being pepper-sprayed and racist slurs hurled at her by a white American (guess what? a descendant of immigrants himself – as majority of America).

There will be no quiet, if we continue to enable these ludicrous sagas…

There is never going to be an ideal world with no issues. Bullies thrive when you show them they are hurting you. People need to toughen up…