Lilibet
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Good point about the difficulty of maintaining certain types of relationships when working in certain industries.
I still stick by my observations. Having not a single friend at your wedding (except industry friends) says something.
Kate Middleton certainly had friends at her wedding. The press was always taking pictures of Kate with her friends. The press was so intrusive about taking pictures of Kate and Prince William they were eventually prohibited from being within a certain radius of the campus and not allowed to take pictures of them at certain places.
If she wasn't a modern day Cinderella literally marrying a prince, I think even more people would take note of her absence of friends at the wedding and not having made friends after moving to England.
I see nothing wrong with her not inviting her siblings, we have all seen how nasty and unpredictable they are. It was a happy day for her; her siblings aren't happy for her.
I pray that she and her mother are always loyal to each other, what a special bond.
I got married when I was 20 and there were no childhood friends at our small wedding, just college friends. We tried to invite ones we thought we would remain friends with for years to come, but we aren’t in touch with any of them 52 years later, and even lost touch soon after our wedding. Life takes us on different paths and I’m not great at keeping in touch. My cousin, on the other hand, has a slew of friends from her younger years even at 82. Different strokes and maybe Meghan is more like me, living in the present. It doesn’t mean I wouldn’t enjoy seeing early friends, but looking them up isn’t my thing. However, I’m very loyal to my current friends, some of whom go back over 40 years.
I also think being even a fairly minor celebrity may have impacted her friendships from her younger years. And that could be her friends drawing away, not Meghan.
I don’t know how she would have a chance to make new friends in London, other than with Harry. Perhaps in her yoga class? But were they close enough to invite to a relatively small wedding?