Does Meghan have to invite Trump to the wedding?
WE know what Meghan Markle thinks of Donald Trump but what if she has to invite the man she called “misogynistic” and “divisive” to her wedding, asks Katy Hall.
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JUST days into engaged life and Meghan Markle is already facing an almighty wedding dilemma.
Like many a bride-to-be before her, the 36-year-old has dresses, bridal party and floral arrangements to consider. But the problem that’s likely keeping her up at night right now is what on earth she’s going to do with the world’s creepy uncle, President Donald J. Trump.
Like his brother and sister-in-law before him, it’s highly likely that Prince Harry’s nuptials will be a lavish affair with invitations extended to heads of states from around the world. The problem in this instance being, though, that Markle has slammed Trump before. And not in an anyone-with-eyes-and-ears-has-slammed-Trump-before way, but rather, very, very publicly.
In May 2016, prior to his election, the former Suits actor told comedian and late night television host Larry Wilmore that a Trump presidency would be “a game changer in terms of how we move in the world here” and suggested she might move permanently to Canada if he won the Presidency.
“Yes, of course Trump is divisive. Think about just female voters alone. I think it was in 2012, the Republican Party lost the female vote by 12 points. That’s a huge number and with as misogynistic as Trump is and so vocal about it, that’s a huge chunk of it,” Markle said, adding, “Trump has made it easy to see that you don’t really want that kind of world that he’s painting.”
In her defence, the comments were made before she began dating Prince Harry, before she had any idea of what life as a royal would be like. But still, it’s surely something the notoriously thin-skinned Trump will remember.
In managing the problem (and by ‘the problem’ I absolutely mean the human-sized speck of Cheeto dust that is the Commander-in-Chief), the newly engaged couple have three options.
Firstly, they can do what all couples forced to invite swathes of guests they don’t know or particularly like to their wedding do and put the Trumps at a table towards the back of the room, ensure the bridesmaids are a safe distance from ‘the handsy guy’ at all times, ask the groomsmen to make small talk until they finally leave and omit Trump’s favourite foods from the menu. Which, given they’re hamburgers and Lays potato chips, shouldn’t be particularly difficult for the former lifestyle blogger and her beau.
Alternatively, they could plan a quiet, low-key wedding consisting of close friends and family members only. A small, 500-person or so event at which politics, sex and religion are firmly removed.
Or, if they really wanted to be the trailblazers of their generation, Harry and Meghan could throw diplomacy to the wind and simply elope. Sure, it would make every royal watcher ever furious beyond belief, but it sure beats dealing with seating arrangements and considering glassware options.
Katy Hall is a RendezView writer and producer.
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