KARMA STRIKES BACK AT CHARLES

Does anyone remember when Princess Di Married  the Prince of Wales?  From the outside  it looked like a fairytale marriage.  When, in fact, it was a nightmare from the git go.  How many bridegrooms would leave their betrothed alone in a dark room the night before their wedding, while schmoozing on the phone with his old girlfriend?  Apparently, Diana wanted to back out, but her sisters told her she had to go through with it.  She married a man who didn’t love her, and she knew it. If he’d kept it to himself and put on a good show, it wouldn’t have been so bad. But Charles treated her like dirt, divorced her, married Camilla, and thought he got away with it.  But he didn’t.  Because now, bad karma strikes back at Charles.

Karma strikes back at Charles. He treated Di badly, and now it's come back to haunt him.
Karma strikes back at Charles. His sons suffered from the way he treated their mother.

How can anyone believe that the sons of this disastrous union wouldn’t be somewhat psyched up?  Apparently, William was old enough to handle his mother’s miserable marriage, divorce,  and untimely death.  But Harry was just a little kid. At twelve years old, forced to march in a parade behind his mother’s coffin. It’s a miracle he ended up so well.

After the Oprah interview last week with Meghan and Harry, the British press went bonkers. How could Harry say such horrible things about his family on public television?  The question is, why wouldn’t he?   A victim should be able to tell his side of the story in the end.  And yes, Harry was a victim of his father’s narcissistic treatment of his mother.  Are we saying that people with money don’t have emotional problems? That if they do have them, they should be ashamed of themselves?

I have no idea why Charles was such a callous person. Maybe it went back to his Mom trying so hard to be a queen that she didn’t have much time for mothering. Not to mention dealing with a notoriously womanizing husband.  That’s the thing about karma.  It just goes on and on, echoing down through the centuries.

Maybe Harry and Meghan are trying to give their kids some good karma by moving to America.  I hope it works. Because bad karma is striking back at Charles right now.

WELCOME TO AMERICA, HARRY

One of the interesting things about getting our DNA results from Ancestry.com was discovering that we are about half English. This, in spite of the fact that both my husband and I had German surnames. My mother was a genealogy freak, so I knew there were some English ancestors. But my husband grew up around so many German aunts, uncles and grandparents that he assumed he was mostly German. He isn’t. In fact, he’s got some Scottish, Swedish and Irish genes . At any rate, after seeing Oprah’s  Meghan-Harry interview on CBS, we’re both glad our ancestors left England . Welcome to America, Harry.

Welcome to America, Harry . Glad Our Ancestors Left England. We'd still be paying taxes to support a monarchy.
Welcome to America Harry. We’re glad our ancestors left England. Bet Harry’s descendants will be glad he did, too.

My husband’s English blood came from his mother’s family. The first Frost left England about 1635 to escape some kind of religious persecution.  He must have thrived here,  because there are some illustrious folks named Frost all over the USA.

My English blood came from my Grandfather White. It’s such a common name that I can’t claim a family connection to anyone with the same surname. James White sailed over to Virginia about 300 years ago.. Although uneducated, he managed to move his family of 12 sons up to Indiana, and acquired 5,000 acres of farmland. Someone must have married well, because my mother was able to join the DAR by proving that  one of her ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence.

What would have happened if Edmund Frost and James White had stayed in England?  My husband and I would be citizens of  a monarchy. Descending from commoners, we might not be living very well.  Maybe on the dole.  And part of our taxes would be going to support the most antiquated political system that can possibly be imagined.  What would happen if the monarchy collapsed?  Who would care if the British Commonwealth no longer had  a King or Queen?

We’re glad our ancestors left England, and I would imagine that the descendants  of the prince will be grateful that  he did, too.

Welcome to America, Harry.  The land of the free, and the home of the brave.

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”

….Robert Frost