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'I didn't want to be alive anymore': Duchess Meghan revealed Palace wouldn't allow her mental health help
March 07, 2021
Duchess Meghan revealed that she wanted to commit suicide after the flood of attacks on her while she was in Buckingham Palace. She said that she went to the senior members of the institution to ask for help and said that she wanted to see someone, but she was told that it wouldn't be good for the institution.
Meghan said that she was having thoughts in the middle of the night about harming herself. He said that she shouldn't go to one of the events and that she told Harry that she had to go because she couldn't be alone. She said that Harry was supportive and that she was able to reach out to one of Harry's mother's friends to talk and for help.
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When Meghan went to the hierarchy of the institution and said that in her old job she was a member of the union and would be able to get help and be taken care of, she was told that she's not a paid employee.
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She said that she felt guilty telling Harry and admitting she needed help because "he already carries the weight of the world on his shoulders."
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Meghan and Harry reveal that Buckingham Palace was concerned about how dark their son's skin would be
March 07, 2021
Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are drawing criticisms from Buckingham Palace amid reports that the couple is telling all in an interview with Oprah on CBS News.
Duke Harry is sixth in line for the crown, or seventh if you count Queen Elizabeth. It means the only way he'll ever become King of England is if the entire royal family is somehow killed. Still, the palace and British critics have lashed out at the royals who said that they wanted to leave the financial benefits of the royal family.
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Buckingham Palace has responded by announcing an astounding list of problems they have with Meghan including that she emailed staff at 5 a.m.
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"It's a fairly extensive list of things that has been pulled together,"
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Across the pond, however, Americans understandably loyal to the Duchess are questioning why the Palace hates her so much while simultaneously defending Prince Andrew, who palled around with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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"Following enormous public criticism of their conversation, in which Andrew said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein, the Queen's son
<a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a29860387/prince-andrew-resigns-public-duties-jeffrey-epstein-interview/" target="_blank">voluntarily stepped back from his royal duties</a>," reported <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28339290/royal-family-prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-relationship/" target="_blank">Town and Country Magazine in 2020</a>. <span></span>
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The interview didn't go well for Andrew, who was accused, but never charged, having sex with a teenage girl "who had been supplied to him by his friend," the
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"Viewers expressed shock and anger at Prince Andrew's lack of sympathy for Mr. Epstein's victims, as well as his unpersuasive denials of sexual misconduct, which included peculiar assertions, such as that he has been medically unable to perspire since his combat tour in the Falklands War," said the
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Some are finding a lot of similarities with the way that the palace is treating Meghan and how they treated Harry's mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Meghan faces a lot of characteristics that have led racist and prudish Brits to bristle at the marriage. She's divorced, she's Black, and she's American, all things that are not accepted among royals. Divorce doesn't seem to be the biggest problem as it isn't unheard of in the royal family as Prince Charles, Edward VIII, Princess Ann, Princess Margaret, and Queen Elizabeth's grandson Peter Phillips are all divorced.
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One of the things that Meghan revealed was that the couple got married before the public ceremony because they wanted to have something that was just among the two of them. She said that the vows that they gave to each other privately are framed in their home.
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She said that the story about her making Kate cry was the opposite of what happened. A few days before the wedding Kate was upset about something relating to flower girl dresses and it made Meghan cry. The story was the reverse in the press, saying Meghan made Kate cry. In fact, Kate brought Meghan a letter of apology and flowers and they two made up. At the time, Meghan was dealing with a lot of news about her father at the time.
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"Everyone in the institution knew it wasn't true," said Meghan.
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"Then why didn't they say that?" Oprah asked.
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"That's a good question," said Meghan.
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She went on to say that everyone in her world was given the directive to say "no comment," about the couple.
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"And I did. I did everything they told me to do!" she said. Meghan noted that her friend would call her and say that there were horrible pieces and she told them, "don't worry, I'm being protected." It was only after they were married that she learned that the palace wasn't willing to tell the truth about her to protect. her while lying about others to protect them.
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She also explained that there are two different versions of the palace - the family and the "institution." She spoke about how warm Queen Elizabeth was to her and that she reminded her of her late grandmother who she loved deeply. When it came to Kate, she said that everyone, including Kate, was unbelievably kind to her.
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She also said that in the first several months she was very lonely and wanted to see her friends, but couldn't because the palace staff told her that she was in the press too much. She hadn't left the palace more than twice in four months.
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She went on to say that some of the conversations around the couple's first child were about how he wouldn't get a title or security, but the worst was that there were questions about how dark his skin might be.
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The Duke and Duchess also revealed that the conversation about whether Archie would be a prince were decisions made by the palace, not by the couple. At the same time, because the baby wouldn't be a prince, the couple wouldn't do a formal photo of them leaving the hospital. Their largest concern with Archie was that because he wasn't a prince he wouldn't get any kind of security to ensure his protection.
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Oprah asked if she thought that the reason had to do with the color of his skin. Meghan then revealed that there were conversations with Harry about how dark Archie's skin might be when he's born.
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Accused insurrectionist Bruno Joseph Cua and his parents are playing the "I just want to go home to Mom and Dad" card in seeking his release from jail while he awaits trial in connection with the January 6 Capitol riot.
That might not be the greatest strategy.
<p> Turns out the judicial system isn't all that enamored with Mom and Dad since they were the ones who drove their 18-year-old son to the infamous "Stop the Steal" Trump rally in Washington D.C. Parents Joseph and Alise Cua don't deny knowing that their son -- the youngest person arrested in the mob--had posted earlier violent messages on social media and then broke into the Capitol.</p>
<p> The folks also had to know that Cua has been cited by police in early December in their hometown of Milton, GA for creating a disturbance at a local elementary school. Police said Cua was driving erratically in his speeding pickup truck in the school parking lot while "waving my (Trump) flag." Bruno's younger brother was there.</p>
<p> Cua's tearful mother told U.S. District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss Thursday that since her son's arrest she had spent time "feeling, quite frankly, just stupid for believing what I believed," the Huffington Post reported. "I really should've known better," she said, adding that she and her son felt "ridiculous" for believing the former president's lies about voter fraud. We are completely broken and just honestly and truly remorseful to the core of our beings, and we're asking for a chance."</p>
<p> Joseph Cua made a similar plea to the judge Friday, the Huffington Post <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bruno-cua-trump-capitol-attack_n_603fb5f8c5b6d7794ae37145" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a>: "His father bought into the lies too, convinced there was "all this fraud and the election was stolen." But now, testifying in the hopes of securing his son's pretrial release, Joseph Cua said he now recognized that he was misled.</p>
<p> "I share responsibility in that," he said. "As a middle-aged man, I feel like I can filter a little bit of that with reality, but I felt like as a teenager, he was drinking it in, and just believed it too much."</p>
<p> Those mea culpas aside, Cua still faces some of the most serious charges filed against any of the more than 300 arrested suspects at the Capitol. He was armed with a small baton -- which Dad admits he was aware of -- and among other things, is charged with shoving a police officer. Cua was also one of the relatively few Capitol trespassers to make into the chambers and offices of lawmakers. </p>
<p> Chief Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman sent Cua to a DC jail on February 12 to be held there until trial. At a hearing that day, Cua's parents did not receive high grades from the judicial system.</p>
<p> Ryan Karim Buchanan, a Justice Department prosecutor, had argued for detaining Cua, saying the home wasn't a "suitable place" for him. "I don't believe that home incarceration would work because he's an 18-year-old who's home schooled," Buchanan said. The things that Bruno Cua had ingested, not only from the internet but from his parents, led him to the attack on the Capitol.</p>
<p> "[Joseph] Cua testified that he believes some of this came from him, he acknowledged that he bears some responsibility for his son's belief structure and then the actions that arose out of those," Buchanan said. "Absent the internet, absent going to any rallies, his parents are still there."</p>
<p> "He went up to D.C., his parents went with him, and then he committed multiple felonies there," Buchanan said. "The idea that this is some type of learning experience for him ... the danger he poses has not been mitigated. The danger he poses, I believe, is mitigated with him in custody."</p>
<p> With that as context, it might not have strengthened the home-schooled Cua's case when he penned the following letter to Moss last week from jail:</p>
<p> "I will never be the same person, jail has had its full effect me (sic), I am completely humbled, deeply remoursefull (sic) and regretful! After all, thats (sic) what jail is for right? Teaching people a lesson? Lesson fully received, your Honor…Given how innaproprite (sic) my social media activity was, I truly understand your worries…I am not a danger to anyone, and I will absolutely never act on what I said. I have completely lost those aggressive feelings and moved on from the entire politcal (sic) idea."</p><p> In the more recent hearing before Moss, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Paschall echoed a similar theme, saying Cua's parents were "inappropriate" guardians given their knowledge of his behavior.</p>
<p> "His parents were fully aware that he was in possession of a weapon, fully aware that he was inside the building, fully aware that there was an altercation with a plainclothes officer, and they did nothing about it," Paschall told the judge. "They did nothing."</p><p> It remains to be seen whether Moss will arrive at a different judicial conclusion than Baverman, who said in jailing Cua that outside of a drug case, he had rarely seen this much family involvement in a crime, the Huffington Post <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bruno-cua-father-trump-capitol-attack_n_60273806c5b680717ee7d557" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a>.</p>
<p> "We have a lot of really serious, a lot of really, really dangerous people who show up here in federal court," Baverman said. "But I have to say this is the first time in a number of years in a non-family drug case where his parents were, maybe not instigators, but aiders and abettors and didn't take steps to stop their child from going off the rails."</p>
<p> "Baverman said it was "not very credible" to him that Cua's father didn't see the danger of what was happening, given that he saw the Trump supporters in paramilitary gear, knew his son had a weapon on him, and allowed his son to go up the scaffolding around the Capitol.</p>
<p> "I've rejected custodians far less involved in the criminal conduct of the defendant," Baverman said. "Mr. Cua said they were misled by leaders. Well, Mr. Cua is supposed to be a leader, as a parent." </p>
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