It’s become a by-product of anything she does, Meghan Markle announces something special and within minutes, Piers Morgan is on Twitter berating her for it. A few hours later, a Daily Mail column will appear online where he dissects her every move and tries, at length, to ‘prove’ how ‘foul’ she is. It almost always reads like a bitter ex jealous of his former loves new life.
This morning, the focus of Piers latest tirade was on Meghan’s new children’s book. Announcing its publication date in a statement, Meghan explained that the book will be about father-son relationships, as seen through the eyes of mothers.
The Bench will be published on 8th June, with the Duchess of Sussex stating ‘The Bench started as a poem I wrote for my husband on Father's Day, the month after Archie was born. That poem became this story…My hope is that The Bench resonates with every family, no matter the make-up, as much as it does with mine.’
Cue Piers cries of ‘hypocrisy’.
‘How the hell can Meghan “I hate royalty but call me Duchess” Markle preach about father-child relationships when she's disowned her own Dad, and wrecked her husband's relationship with his?’ his headline reads.
He goes on to claim that because of Meghan’s troubled relationship with her own father, Thomas Markle, and Prince Harry’s latest tension with his, the Duchess of Sussex is simply not capable of ‘dishing out advice’ to anyone about the relationship between fathers and children.
Frankly, we completely disagree. If anything, having a terrible relationship with your father makes you even more qualified to comment on, and offer advice for, father-child relationships. Knowing what forms an unhealthy bond between parent and child, how that dynamic may change in adulthood, understanding the toxicity of familial ties and the importance of setting boundaries even with your blood, these are all really important topics we absolutely should be discussing.
Experiencing a toxic relationship actually makes you wiser to forming healthy bonds.
By Piers' logic, anyone who’s ever had a bad experience of something or someone is incapable of coming to sound, meaningful conclusions about the impact of said experience, and how to avoid getting there. Isn’t reality the complete opposite? Take having a toxic ex-boyfriend, for example, don’t those experiences make you wiser to toxicity in love and dating? When we reflect so much more on bad experiences over good, don’t you become all the more capable of offering advice about achieving a healthy relationship, knowing exactly what to avoid and where things went wrong?
Meghan then, is uniquely qualified to talk about father-child relationships and the importance of them being healthy from an early age. But what’s ironic about all of this is, she hasn’t even said she’s going to do that. All we know about The Bench is that she’s telling the story of father-son relationships through the eyes of a mother, with no mention of heeding or giving advice.
Once again, Piers has taken off about something that with no grounding, forming an opinion that is actually, entirely illogical. If Meghan were offering advice then, we know who we’d rather be taking it from.
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