The Real Housewife of Buckingham Palace

Published Sep 1, 2022, 7:00 AM

Meghan Markle’s message is important, but her messaging doesn’t work for Bethenny. B explains why, and how Meghan is playing straight from The Housewives handbook.

Plus, Bethenny shares what her engagement story and Taylor Swift’s new album have in common.

So I didn't. I didn't completely get canceled last time I spoke about Mega Markel. But the thing is, I don't want to not speak on something if it is occurring to me, if my girlfriends are talking about it, if people are secretly talking about it. And then, like when I talked about Kim Kardashian, I don't want to shy away from something that I have an opinion on if I'm hearing moms talk about it, if uh, like I said, my girlfriends and my staff have an opinion on it. Um, So let's get into Mega Markel. I want you to know that I don't know that much about her. I mean, I know what I read in the headlines, and I know that you know, the Daily Mail and the Post is always writing uh negative things that the Peers Morgan's and the Megan kelly are always sort of on one side of it become oddly like a political thing. They're on one side of it. And then the liberal media, you know, everything Megan does is you know, the People magazine amazing spread. So it's very divided. And it's interesting that certain things like wearing masks and getting vaccinated became completely political when you could be a Democrat that wants to not get vaccinated and a Republican that wants to get vaccinated. And you could be a person that likes Megan Markle that's a Republican or a Democrat that doesn't. So it's just funny how these other things become political, Like it's just the way it goes. Like liberal media some I guess like Megan Markel and conservative media doesn't. And it makes you know, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me like that there are party lines on an individual, especially someone who's not a politician. But Megan Markel is certainly polarizing. And we're in a different era now. And Wallace Simpson, you know who, her husband gave up the throne for her, where there wasn't all this different media in a way to kind of get your voice out there and market yourself and things like that. So back then they were pariah's they left the royal family and Megan and Harry get to do Oprah and have a voice and have podcasts and so it's just a different time. I wonder if this was back then, what it would be. So racism is real in this country and all over the world, undeniable, UM depression, mental illness, UM, homophobia is really there are issues that are real that you can have an opinion on a topic and not be ignoring those. So my opinion is that, um, if there was rampant racism in Buckingham Palace in the royal family, I'm not saying that I would be so surprised. Isn't it the whitest, most stocratic royal family, Like, I'm not so so it was great Webb Megan entered that family because it was modern and it was movement and it was changed and people embraced it and loved it. Whatever I wasn't there, So whatever she experienced, let's just say that that was totally real. Now across the board, press seems to feel that there was a lot embellished in other areas, um, whether it's events of a fire or never knowing who Harry was or having no knowledge of the royal family and then be photographed in front of the palace on a trip, and there are many discrepancies. You had a secret wedding, but then the priest or whoever, the clergyman said that it wasn't a real Well, like there's a million there are million opinions back and forth about what's true. And there are fifty shades of truth in this uh Roy exit. But some things do confuse me. So let's say at every Thanksgiving table, there are political arguments. There are uncles that uh don't like Jews, don't like get maybe uncles and aunts don't like Jews, don't like gays, don't understand another bathroom in a school for a second grader, don't understand pronouns, don't understand a white man and a black woman being together. Like. There are members of families and and by the way, you know, we've all experienced that where you can't believe you're embarrassed of a family member, like you can't believe that they have these ridiculous views, these crazy views, because they're old, set in their ways, not educated, ignorant, et cetera. So let's just say that that's Megan's experience. It is her husband who she loves, family, and so some people. I asked my girlfriend today I was walking on the beach. I said, what is it that bothers you so much about Megan? Like? Why do you hate her? I said to my friend. She said, because I can't believe that she would go so hard for so long on this about her husband's family, which I thought, oh, that's interesting. And she said she got what she wanted and it wasn't good enough. And I said, well, how would she know going into a royal family if there was going to be racism? I mean, how would she know that that was going to happen? And she said, you're entering into the Queen of England's home like that. There. This is an aristocracy and it's the most archaic, antiquated um system in the world. That doesn't mean you're not gonna want to change it. That doesn't mean we're going to accept things in society and just say oh, that's the way that is, and we're just gonna go with that. Like in the NFL, you can't, you know, refuse to take a knee like people have to take a stand. We get that, but she feels that Megan wants an Ola Carte menu. That was my friend said to me today because I wanted to know what the problem is far because I said it. She's a very polarizing person. So for me, it's okay to have your own podcast and want to make money. You want to be a capitalist, you and Harry against the World, making hundreds of millions of dollars on Spotify, on Netflix. You know, go for the American dream. Leave the Brits, go for the American dream. You want to be friends of famous people. You weren't allowed to go out, you weren't allowed to take designer goods, live your life. You were on a game show holding a briefcase, and then you were on a show that wasn't wily No, and I had never seen it or really heard of it. Um, And it's also okay to marry someone and and become a duchess. Like good for you? Yeah, you know that that that's every little girl wants to be a princess and you got to be a duchess. Wonderful to me. More used to be on General Hospital. I was in the cover of Forbes magazine. I used to be on The Housewife's making seven thousand dollars a year and wasn't saved by the bell p A. We all have had a pass. Kim Kardashian, you know, was in a sex tape, like we all have had a past. So I don't think the problem is that um Megan is now a duchess and some people talk about that. Oh well she you know she not so long ago she was opening briefcases like who cares? Like great, go for yours, go all the way. What I do think, though, the bottom line is I think people don't like Megan Markle because I think she talks down to other people. I think she's sanctimonious, and I think there's this subtext of elevation. She's up there, we're down here. She just has institutional knowledge on life and has experienced more than any of us. She's been compared to Nelson mandela Um. She's very self important, and she's very much like a housewife, and that she can't stop talking about the very thing that she wants to be irrelevant. And if she were on the show, the producers would say, stop talking about security and and and the state of more cottage. It's not relatable. Most people don't have a security detail. So while that may be a real concern for you, it's just not something that really is going to play to this audience. She wants to sort of like eradicate and erase the royal family and you know, take them down and have a voice and talk about everything that happened, which is a cautionary tale, and it is good for people to know that racism exists everywhere, but that's not something we're surprised by. Like if you tell me that racism exists in the royal family, I'm not like bold over with shock. Okay, So you got out of there. Okay, you got out. Um, but it is your husband's family, and you keep beating the same you keep beating the same storyline. So you want to be a voice for change, a woman for female empowerment to talk about racism and how unacceptable it is. A bill it is what it's like to be a woman um of color. Okay, so do that, So do that in the future. Why do we keep in these nuanced subtle ways, keep referencing things that happened in the past with this one family that doesn't reflect most of the world, Like it's not relatable. If I call you and I'm like, oh my god, you can't imagine what Madonna, Tom Cruise share uh and Cindy Crawford's said to me in my experience recently, Like how is that going to like help everybody? Like it's such a specific except I was I was on a show where I held a briefcase, got myself to be an actress, married myself a prince, became a duchess, was treated with racist like we're not that shocked and to to, you know, and I think that they're So I think that there's a non relatable factor in the way that we're being spoken to and in that like poised orchestrated elegance, in that mimicking of Diana, in that you know that Caroline Bessett Kennedy intentional, very natural, very slow, intentional speech being a guest at the word diva, like you know, who are you relating to? I? I just so none of my friends relate to Megan Markel. Okay, we would, you know, don't don't we We feel like we'd be sort of subtly talked down to. And like I said, it's happened on the Housewives when someone believes that they're just elevated from you in many different ways, and it makes you feel uncomfortable because you want to say, who do you think you are? You're not better than me. So I think that Megan Markele, it's not the message, it's the messaging. That's what I think about Megan Markle on that when you're on the Housewives. I want to separate from the Housewives. It was toxic. I don't want to be part of the drama. Whatever the housewife says. Right then you're in ninety six interviews for the next five years, always talking about the very thing you're trying to extricate yourself from. Okay, I want to separate myself from the Royal family. I was treated horribly subtle. I'm going to do these in these hidden messages, this morse code to the public. That's not going to directly say what I'm saying, but everybody in the Royal family and in Great Britain understands exactly what I'm saying. So like, like, at least say rip the goddamn band aid off. Say there are a bunch of assholes. They're uptight, white racist, white supremacist asshole, Like come out say it a dopte But like these nuanced I want my privacy, but I want a podcast. I want my privacy, but I want a Netflix special. And there's a million things I could say about it. I had a very a list celebrity, very wealthy person call me when I commented on Megan Markle before the Oprah interview um and said to me, can you please take down what you said? They can barely stand up in frog More Cottage and they can't afford their security. So at that time, I didn't know all the deals of her being made. I didn't know that the head of Disney was being pitched by Harry for Megan to be you know, the voice of Jasmine, or whatever the hell they were doing. I didn't know all of that. And by the way, that's all sort of the caddy stuff that doesn't really matter. But when you leave the Royal family, leave the Royal family, it's behind you. You learned something, you said it, We heard you. You say things, you say the same thing five times, five different ways. You're probably not changing the Royal Family, like with repeating the same information. We heard the message, we got it. We know you're on the Housewives, we know you left, and by the way, you could say this to me. But I'm not pretending to be better than anything. Okay, So I left the Housewives. I left because it was toxic, and when I'm interviewed, I discuss it. But I tried to rinse and try to separate as much as I can. You left the Royal family, and in every single interview you do, you are talking in some nuanced subtext or slightly direct way about the royal family. Let it go, elsa move forward, create change in the future, and leave that family behind because it's only creating more drama for your husband. I don't listen. Taylor Swift is the woman who does like sing about certain men in her songs and everyone's wondering who it is. Um, you know the song You're So Vain by Carly Simon. People for years like as a Wayne Newton, was it? Um Warren Beatty. That's for those of you under nine. You're not gonna know that reference. But anyway, Taylor Swift dropping the album on Kim Kardashian's birthday, I do not think that that was intentional. I think that was a date. I mean, I know there are three hundred and sixty five days of the year, and if you pick a day, it's gonna be on someone's fucking birthday. I don't believe that Taylor's Swift was like, hmmm, let's send a hidden Morse code message and have it on Kim Kardashian's birthday. Why wouldn't be on Kanye's birthday? Then it just seems too nuanced and weird. It's like so forced. Everybody has to make something out of something. I literally got engaged February twelfth, I think it was, and I want to say March a new season of The Housewives was announced or the new trailer dropped, and I was in Boca Ratone, where there's never paparazzi, and for some reason that day, because I guess I had been posting maybe on my story, there was a paparazzi that got me in the ocean with my ring. Months later and it came out and it was I announced my engagement on the day that the Housewives tailer came out. What the funk are you talking about? I got engaged six weeks before that. I never announced my engagement. I never announced my engagement because I didn't want to do the whole bullshit like Beach Rose pedal orchestrated get involved in my relationship engagement announcement. It was weeks later, and it just am out on that day because you know what, there are three days in the year, and one of those days is gonna be the day of the trailer drops, and maybe I'm in the beach with a goddamn giant ring, like it was ridiculous and it doesn't matter. But I just do not think that Taylor Swift would drop on Kim Kardashian's birthday, go right to the goddamn I of the storm and drop on Kanye's birthday. People did have an issue with Jailo performing at her own wedding. I mean, you have to laugh, like you're working at your wedding. Oh my god, did she have like a rider like things that were I want red vines and I need salted cash shows, I need my backup dancers. I mean, it's just Jailo performed at her wedding. It's just and she went to another big, massive city with her husband, who seems to be a little uncomfortable with so much media, Like can I make a suggestion and unsolicited suggestion? Can you just go to the Maldives or something like there aren't that many people and be romantic like walking through Malan in August. That literally sounds like my idea of hell, walking through Malan in August, hot long pants, hats, like it's just attention paparazzi. It just sounds interesting. Love is blind

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