Actor Wilson Cruz has prompted hundreds of comments with a tweet he posted yesterday about the British Royal Family. We’re presuming Wilson (Star Trek: Discovery) binge-watched the Harry & Meghan documentary series on Netflix.
In the six-part show, the couple have taken the opportunity to explain why they felt the need to step back from the Royal Family and relocate to California.
“You can’t tell me that the #Royalfamily, the institution, didn’t actively work towards and succeeded in getting the result they wanted, which was for Meghan to reach her limit and leave,” said Wilson. “I just don’t think they bet that Harry would’ve have left with her. #MeghanandHarry”
You can’t tell me that the #Royalfamily, the institution, didn’t actively work towards and succeeded in getting the result they wanted, which was for Meghan to reach her limit and leave. I just don’t think they bet that Harry would’ve have left with her. #MeghanandHarry
— Wilson Cruz (@wcruz73) December 22, 2022
Harry and Meghan have divided opinions in the UK. Although loved by some, elsewhere, right-leaning sections of the media have largely demonized Meghan Markle. Pro-Royal Family sentiment remains high.
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Wilson was perhaps not expecting many fervent Royalists to respond to his tweet defending the Monarchy.
It prompted him to post a subsequent tweet.
“I don’t know which part of ‘You can’t tell me..’ you morons don’t understand but I’m pretty sure it means the same thing in GB, sooo keep it moving.”
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Wilson also responded personally to several of the comments.
So they’re supposed to just sit back and let the institution have the last and false say? They don’t have a right to tell their side after all the slanderous things that were said.
— Wilson Cruz (@wcruz73) December 22, 2022
It was all part of the story they wanted to tell. The wedding was all a part of it. They used her, chewed her up and then made her the fall person.
— Wilson Cruz (@wcruz73) December 23, 2022
If by American culture you mean that she wanted to use her platform to help women and people of color instead of blockading about the empire and it’s racist history, you’re correct
— Wilson Cruz (@wcruz73) December 23, 2022
What next for Harry and Meghan?
Harry & Meghan has proved a ratings success for Netflix. To date, it’s the streamer’s most-watched documentary debut. The first three episodes notched up more views than the first three episodes of the most recent season of The Crown.
Reviews, however, have been mixed. Some found the long-touted series a little light on specific details. Variety suggested the series didn’t offer much more than what was revealed in last year’s Oprah Winfrey interview.
“Some skepticism is warranted regarding whether they’ve finally gone to the well one too many times with their oft-repeated tale of mistreatment at the hands of England’s royal family,” said Variety’s Andrew Wallenstein this week.
“There can only be so many revelations left to share with the public now that the couple have exiled themselves away from their fractious coexistence with the monarchy.”
King Charles III will broadcast his first Christmas speech to the UK on Sunday. Although his words will likely focus on his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, many wonder if he will make reference to Harry’s family following the Netflix show.
Then there’s the issue of Charles’ official coronation in the spring. It’s unthinkable that Harry and Meghan wouldn’t be invited to attend such an occasion. Then again, Harry’s memoir, Spare, is due to hit bookshelves next month. It’s sure to include further details about life within the Royal Family not included in the Netflix show.
stanhope
I never thought much about Wilson Cruz one way or the other but now i love him. He speaks truth.
bachy
Absolutely agreed. Reading the Daily Mail is what clued me in to Meghan & Harry and their drama. There are at least 5 articles a day on the site ripping them to shreds. Comments are in the thousands, and the public is whipped into what can only be described as a witch-burning frenzy.
It’s diabolical, abhorrent– the only way I can describe it.
The British press is doing everything in their power to demonize Meghan, presenting her as some kind of evil mastermind intent on destroying Britain – and from the looks of it, their foaming-at-the-mouth readership is buying it. I loathe seeing an innocent person publicly brutalized in the press in this manner.
The ferocity of contempt directed at Meghan has frequently reminded me of the endless shlt that was dumped on Obama & Michelle daily. None of it made any sense outside of a sinister, unconscious racism (not that it wasn’t conscious also, but a huge percentage of it seemed unconscious, embedded, unexamined).
It’s horrible, demoralizing and detestable. The Meghan & Harry doc shined a light on it that’s been long overdue.
Diplomat
Bachy,
Agreed.
The doc shared the human side of Megan’s personality which I greatly appreciated. It put things in perspective regarding her heart and how she feels about life love and freedom. She got a bumb wrap basically and Harry didn’t want her killed so they left. Bravo. Fk the neg Brits if they don’t get it.
Chambers
Yes I like his take. Each season of the Masked Singer I think Wilson Cruz is one of the performers.
Ronbo
The establishment’s media is quite vicious towards the two – quite targeted and sus. Now that the twitter-files are available, one can see how “infulencer” spooks infused in our media take their cue. Assange, for example. Although he is a publisher like the NYT’s, he doesn’t have staff from the CIA, NSA, CENTCOM, Mossad, MI6 etc… on staff. If you don’t push their propaganda, you are the enemy.
Read Bari, Tabbi and Greenwald. The MIC gets just over half our entire governments’ budget! It doesn’t add up.
DCFarmboy
She willingly and knowingly married into the imperialist and colonialist family. I have no regard for any of them.
Kangol2
Wilson Cruz is right, just as the Sussexes are. Just the other day Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson wrote a screed so overtly hateful and misogynistic against Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, that the Sun newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch, received 20,800 complaints and had to apologize. That newspaper is now facing an investigation by the British press regulatory authority, and took the extraordinary step of deleting the column. Rupert Murdoch even canceled a dinner with Clarkson because of the public outrage.
Meanwhile, Queen Consort Camilla, who was captured not wanting to touch a Black British child’s hand at an event just a few weeks ago, didn’t feel any compunction about dining with Clarkson. There was also another racist incident involving a longtime pal of QE2’s and now a member of Camilla’s Ladies in Waiting, who insulted a Black British charity activist. How much clearer do things have to be for people to get what’s going on here?
Look, no one has to like Meghan or Harry for that matter, but the British media, apparently aided by people linked to the Royal family (the Firm), have attacked and demeaned her nonstop since she and Harry began dating. They have also conspired with members of her family (her father and older half-sister) to run stories that misrepresent who she is, for financial gain. It’s disgusting but it’s also in keeping with how they operate. They did the same thing to Harry’s (and William’s) late mother, Princess Diana, an iconic woman who remains beloved across the globe, and they have only ramped up the attacks on Meghan, but with a racist component in her case.
seven5tx
Who is Wilson Cruz and why does his opinion on the Royal family matter to ANYONE. C list celebrities.
DannyParks
Yeah, I had to Google him after reading the jist of this. Cant say I’ve watched him in anything before. The only link he has to commenting on the subject is that he is like Meghan – an American actor who happens to be black (because God forbid we see anyone for anything other than the colour of their skin). Oh and he’s gay which is why Queerty make a headline based on his thoughts.
Like Meghan, he is piggy backing off the Royal family to appear relevant. Also like Meghan he cannot provide much proof to back up the extent of her claims against them.
I didn’t delve too far into his Wikipedia page so not sure I he worked with Meghan at a stage and it doesn’t look like he appeared in any season of the Crown. Also as an American, the British monarchy have no influence on his life. So why are his tweets about them relevant and getting a “headline” ?
LegionKeign
Greenwald has gone the way of assange and gets off on the smell of his own shit. I trust what he says about as much as I trust what trumpty-dumpty says.
Ronbo
I read Greenwald – instead of reading people who are influenced to hate Greenwald. As you may know, gays tend to not play follow-the-leader and often pave routes that the establishment don’t want traveled. And yes, Greenwald is wrong on occasion – as are all people.
Please don’t listen to the homophobes – you learn more from reading and thinking for yourself. One of his establishment critics campaigned saying “Marriage will ALWAYS be between one man and one woman”. She opposed marriage equality until after the courts said that we deserve equality.
Ronbo
“Marriage has historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.” Is the ACTUAL quote from 2013. She encouraged Bill to sign both bigoted DADT and DOMA.
Greenwald was always for equality. His critics have to be pushed.
Ronbo
LegionKeign wants us to hate Assange also. Do we really need to know what politicians profess and do under the cover of secrecy? Sara Palin didn’t like it when Assange published her emails AND back then, the Democratic party supported his reporting – back then against a Republican. Is it ironic or hypocrisy that conservaDems like LegionKeign don’t like transparency in government – because it may reveal corruption and bigotry in our own party?
The truth should not be suppressed. The Pentagon Papers helped end the Vietnam war. Transparency is essential for Democracy – otherwise we are just lemmings in the darkness of propaganda.