Despite the fact that the duchess had previously contacted the Hubb Community Kitchen on the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, people accused Meghan of only reaching out because her brother- and sister-in-law, Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, attended a memorial for victims of the fire on Tuesday.
“Was it William and Catherine visiting in the news that reminded her?” asked Ciara McCorley on the kitchen’s Facebook page on Friday.
“She didn’t even think or care about them until she saw W&C attending a memorial,” an account named “Meghan’s Mole” wrote in a tweet on Tuesday that was liked nearly 300 times.
Anti-Meghan internet denizens also falsely claimed that the Facebook and Instagram pages were run by public relations teams for the Sussexes and/or their charitable organization, Archewell.
“Are you being paid by Sunshine Sachs/Archewell? Wow, you must be really desperate,” Silke Aster commented on the Hubb Community Kitchen’s Facebook page. “This is gross, and so is [Meghan’s] rank desperation.”
This sentiment was echoed on Twitter, with a user named NYVicki tweeting, “Meghan Markle is a narcissist who left any ‘role’ in the BRF. Linking her now to Grenfell is for her own PR.”
This is not the first time that charities and advocacy groups associated with Harry and Meghan have been attacked online by anti-Sussex accounts. In April, many official accounts affiliated with the Invictus Games, the athletic competition for wounded, injured, and sick service members and veterans from countries around the world founded by Harry, were targeted by Sussex haters before and during the games, which took place in the Hague, Netherlands.
For example, the official Twitter account for Help for Heroes, a UK veterans’ charity that until recently was one of the sponsors of the Invictus Games, was forced to limit and hide comments responding to a tweet posting a video Harry made for the group in the days before the competition began. (Responses included calling Harry an “exiled traitor” and a “Money grubbing grifter who is making money off the backs of wounded soldiers.”)
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/community-kitchen-grenfell-tower-fire-victims-meghan-markle
