Alice said, 'This whole hooha seems totally unreasonable and unfair to me.' She also said that she doesn't understand why people are so angry about the Sussexes' decision to step back as members of the royal family. I don't think everyone is angry, but certainly most people were shocked; while it's clear in hindsight that the Sussexes had been planning this for many months, nobody knew about it - it took everyone by surprise, to make an understatement. The hooha is the result of the bombshell announcement.
As Harry currently has transiting Saturn, his chart ruler, in his 1st house, it's certainly true that he would be interested in focusing on his private life and family concerns; thus his desire for a quieter life is indeed only natural. However, the way he has gone about trying to attain it has alienated a lot of people in his own family, and a lot of his former friends. He is said to have changed, to have become selfish and thoughtless, only thinking about his own and Meghan's desires, and heedless of what effect achieving their desires may have on others. That's why some people are angry, I assume.
As for the issue of people questioning his mental stability, it's not 'just because he wants to opt out of the limelight and pressures of being a working royal'. It's members of his own family who are worried about his mental stability because of things he has said and done, or not done, over the last few years, and though it began before he met Meghan, it has greatly increased since. They feel he has been rude to the Queen, that he's totally inconsiderate of everyone but himself and Meghan, and that in general he's behaving in a thoughtless way that he would not have done before. I've posted links in previous posts that give details about all this.
As for Meghan, she certainly has been unlucky in her family members, and I wouldn't wish what she's gone through with them on anyone. It's also true that the British press has been most unfair to her, and it shouldn't be allowed. Having said that, she has made enemies on her own, because of her actions.
Apparently she is jealous of Kate Middleton, and of the fact that Kate is treated as being more important than she, Meghan. Well, whether Meghan likes it or not, she is married to a man who is only sixth in line to the throne, while Kate is married to a future king and is thus slated to be Queen one day. She is, in fact, more important than Meghan in terms of their positions within the royal family, and that's just all there is to it. But Meghan was apparently not happy about this, and it's said that the main reason she wanted to leave Kensington Palace for Frogmore Cottage was to get away from Kate; they say she's not interested in constantly being compared to her. She made Kate cry at the wedding, something about Charlotte's dress; can you imagine? What on earth could she have said to make Kate cry?! And she apparently had spoken to some of Kate's employees in a way that greatly upset them, and when the Queen heard about it she went ballistic and called Harry in and read him the riot act.
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As for Ninaki Priddy, whom you called Meghan's 'so-called best friend', she was good friends with Meghan's first husband too, and it was after he told Ninaki his side of what caused the end of the marriage that Ninaki cut ties with Meghan. She had been best friends with Meghan since they were two years old; they'd gone all through school together, gone to Europe together, and she had been maid of honour at Meghan's first wedding. Whatever Meghan's first husband said as to why the marriage ended must have been pretty damning. But you'll note that Ninaki has not shared that with the world, as I assume she would have if she were only interested in profiting off of her former friendship with Meghan. Because of that, along with the fact that she knew Meghan very well and for a long time, I think that Ninaki's viewpoint is worth considering.
Ninaki said that Meghan uses people until she no longer can profit from knowing them, then drops them. It's interesting that when Meghan first came to London, before meeting Prince Harry, she contacted an English TV personality she knew, Lizzie Cundy, and asked her if she knew any famous men she could introduce her to. Those were her words: "Do you know any famous men? I'm single and I really love English men ..." She didn't ask to be introduced to single men, or attractive men, or successful men; she wanted to meet famous men. Well, I'd say Prince Harry qualified. And after she did meet him and started dating him, she ghosted this woman she'd contacted! Remember Dean's post about ghosting?! Perfect example.
