A comment beneath a viral tweet about Harry’s privacy case this week read: “Good that you provided the proper perspective for poor, suicidal yet so brave and world-saving Meghan.”
The sarcasm is doing a lot of work here, and it deserves to be unpacked, because this is not just a throwaway dig. It is a line of reasoning that shows up constantly in coverage of and commentary about Meghan, and it reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how mental health actually works.
The implication is that if Meghan appears well now, she could not have been genuinely suffering then. That suicidal ideation is a permanent state, and anyone who moves past it must have been performing it in the first place. That you cannot be photographed smiling at an event and also have experienced a crisis three or four years earlier.
This is not how any of it works.
People have good days and bad days. That is the nature of mental health. Someone in crisis on a Tuesday can laugh on a Thursday. Someone who was suicidal in 2019 can host a cooking show in 2024. Recovery is not evidence of fabrication. Functioning is not proof that the suffering was invented.
More importantly, Meghan is no longer in the environment she described as the source of her distress. She left. She left the institution, the country, the daily machinery of royal life that she said brought her to that point. The fact that she appears to be doing better now is not a contradiction. It is what is supposed to happen when someone removes themselves from the thing that was harming them.
Yet the framing persists. If she spoke about it, she was being manipulative. If she seems fine now, she was lying. If she never mentioned it at all, it would not be discussed. The only version of events that satisfies this crowd is one where Meghan never suffered, or where her suffering is permanent and visible enough to be deemed authentic by people who have already decided she is a liar.
The Rest of the Thread Tells You Everything
Scroll past the mental health mockery and the full ecosystem comes into view.
The racialized body shaming. One commenter writes that Meghan “always looks sweaty and like she doesn’t shower.” This is not a fashion critique. Framing a biracial woman as unclean is one of the oldest racial tropes in circulation, and it shows up in these threads with striking regularity. It is designed to dehumanize, and the casualness of it is the point.
The class-based slurs. “Trailer trash” dispenses with subtext entirely. It is a term that exists to mark someone as beneath contempt based on perceived class origin. Applied to Meghan, it functions as a way of saying she does not belong, that she was never worthy of entry into the world she married into, regardless of her education, career, or accomplishments.
The “banishment” rewrite. One commenter states with conviction that Harry and Meghan’s “banishment is permanent.” They were not banished. They left. They made a decision to step back, relocated, and built a life in California. But reframing a voluntary departure as an expulsion serves a purpose: it restores the institution’s authority and strips the couple of agency. In this version, they did not choose to leave. They were cast out. The institution remains powerful and correct. The individuals remain punished and diminished.
The echo chamber reinforcement. They are affirmation signals, the social media equivalent of a crowd cheering. They exist to create the impression of consensus, to make the framing feel like common sense rather than a specific ideological position. They reward the original poster and signal to anyone considering a dissenting view that they will be outnumbered.
What the Thread Actually Is
This is a silencing framework operating across multiple registers simultaneously. The mental health mockery says: do not disclose vulnerability, because your recovery will be held against you. The hygiene attacks say: you are fundamentally unclean and do not belong. The class slurs say: you never deserved to be here. The banishment narrative says: you were removed, not liberated. And the wall of agreement says: everyone thinks this, so it must be true.
None of these people are engaging with Harry’s actual legal case, which predates his relationship with Meghan and concerns press intrusion into his private life. The thread is not a response to the case. It is a ritual, performed on schedule, reinforcing a set of conclusions that were reached long before any of the facts under discussion took place.
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