I find it hard to believe Meghan was ever told by anyone in power that she couldn't see a therapist. The person she (wrongly) approached in the palace was in the Human Resources dept which was for the servants. She was told by him that he could only make such arrangements for the paid employees. The staff for the royals, everyone from window cleaners to cooks and maids numbers the hundreds. Naturally that group of servants doesn't include the people they serve.
Diana had a regular therapist. We know Prince Phillip saw one at one time, and who knows who else, it would be confidential patient information. So I seriously doubt that Meghan would ever have been denied help if she had asked one of the other royals to arrange it for her. But I don't know why she would do that. All Meghan, herself, ever needed to do was call her regular doctor and ask for a referral. Then call for a driver, the same way she calls for a driver to take her to baby showers, pre-natal appointments or anywhere else. No need to call a Uber.
I feel sympathy for anyone with depression, but I don't understand why Meghan, a 39 year-old woman, couldn't have picked up her phone and made an appointment for herself. No one else even needed to know a thing about it.
I had the same feeling, Della. I don't understand why she went to Human Resources in the first place, and why she didn't just, as you said, pick up the phone and call her doctor. That business about being told she couldn't see a therapist sounded pretty hokey to me.
Maybe someone advised her to keep any such visits to a therapist private, and especially not to let the ghoulish paparazzi get their fangs into it; that would make sense. But being told she "couldn't" see a therapist when she was contemplating suicide? I pretty much believed all her grievances until I started thinking about that remark. I just don't buy it.
Sometimes people who are depressed, miserable, feeling discriminated against, treated unfairly, etc. tend to read things in which were not intended, or even things that happened only in their imagination. I'm not saying she made it up, but she could have misinterpreted something that the PR person said. It's just a little too over the top to be believable.
I'm also wondering about that business about not having access to her passport, driver's license, car keys, etc. Knowing nothing about palace procedures, all I can do is speculate. She wasn't a prisoner, though she apparently felt like one. I suspect that official documents, permits, car keys, etc. are kept in a safe place for the benefit of the royals, not to punish them. If she asked for her driver's license and car keys, and was denied access to those things, I would believe she was a prisoner. But I think she may have been applying a hostile attitude to things that were being done for her own safety and convenience. (Imagine misplacing your car keys in a building the size of Buckingham Palace!)
Not taking sides here, I think she could be right on the button in suspecting some members of the royal family of racism. And discussions about what color the baby would be are disgusting. She may have had adequate reason to fly the coop right there. But these other accusations sound whiny, and kind of dubious.
Anyway, it was an interesting two hours.
