Anyone who knows me, knows I’m an Anglophile. I love British History and the British Royal Family. I also learned a long time ago, if I put guests on the program with a British accent, people would love it and they do.
So I’ve had an opinion on the ongoing (for them) saga of Harry and Meghan. Seems Harry has been relegated to a full time parenting position while Meghan goes out and tries to bring home to Montecito the bacon. In the last year there’s been several branding efforts—American Riviera Orchard to As Ever to Love, Meghan and to Sussex or Markle and to HRH or not—-whew, I’m exhausted.
Here’s the way I see it. She destroyed her relationship with everyone in her family, especially her Dad that by her own account, and his, did everything to make her life better and treated her as the favorite of their family—as a princess. Then she met Harry, who I believe was always planning some sort of exit, but she put it on steroids.
They had the fairy tale $43M wedding and then 20 months later said they had enough. On June 2, I will be married 35 years. I can tell you that I’ve had fueds with my husband or a family members that last a lot longer than 20 months. I know what people can handle. Twenty months is not enough time to tell anything unless there is adultery, abuse or addiction. Sadly, if they could have held out a couple of more years, they would have been the number 2 couple in the kingdom and could have made their own way. But shoulda, coulda and woulda and 2 bucks will get you a black coffee at Starbucks and we will never know.
What I do know is that they are taking from their children some great opportunities because things won’t get better for them after King Charles dies. They may have rocked the boat with Harry’s father, but they’ve burned all the bridges with the next generation of royals and it has nothing to do with family, it has to do with trust. If you can’t trust someone to keep your confidence, you can’t have them around.
“With Love, Meghan,” the Netflix Series is no “Great British Baking Show.” And there won’t be any rewatching. It was hard enough to watch it the first time. And the Founders podcast and Meghan’s first podcast interview is drivel at best.
There’s a name for someone who had it all within her grasp and then she lost it to hubris and an inflated view of herself. When you read the story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, all you read is sadness in the life of the Duke. He married the woman he loved, yes, but that’s all he had. Harry has two beautiful children but he is keeping from them the world of cousins and his heritage and it’s a shame.
I still say the door will always be open as long as King Charles is alive. I think the world has learned he wasn’t all bad and did the best he could in a complicated relationship with Princess Diana. No one is all good or all bad. But Prince William when he becomes King William is a different thing. His brother abandoned him and it turned out to be the time he needed someone he could trust the most as he dealt with the fear of losing his wife. Harry betrayed his family at a very high level and it will be very hard to comeback.
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