Louise Roberts: Meghan and Harry’s self-interest implodes the Royal family
In true Yoko Ono style, Meghan has splintered the Royals from the inside. Now the family have been sidelined so Harry and his Hollywood bride can live the best of both worlds, writes Louise Roberts.
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When Harry and Meghan got engaged, the universally-adored HRH said his Hollywood bride was getting the family she never had.
Awh that’s so lovely, we all swooned because we wanted Harry, still that broken little boy who lost his mother Diana, to secure the happiness he so deserved and cement over the family dysfunction which continues to plague Meghan.
Now the pair are divorcing themselves from the Royals and blowing up their relationship with the entire Windsor clan because to quote Harry again, what Meghan wants, Meghan gets.
She has positioned herself as the Yoko Ono of the Royal family.
Stuff the band – our self interest is what matters. His family are sidelined, her family are sidelined but still milking the prestige and living off the wealth.
How jarring and insensitive that is, the same couple who bewitched us by landing on Aussie soil and announcing Meghan’s pregnancy in October 2018, later toting a celebratory toy kangaroo and baby Ugg boots.
It’s not a stretch to describe the former actor as an emotional isolator – yes life with Buckingham Palace is restrictive but you can’t have it both ways and surely Harry’s and baby Archie’s best interests are best served by supporting them within his family, their family.
And the Queen? As the head of that family, they’ve declared war on her and the resilience and dignity she stands for, instead delivering the complete woke response of when the going gets tough, the snowflakes implode and play the victim card.
The most ardent of Royal observers have noted the easy, genuine rapport Harry has always had with his grandmother, illustrated by that the cheeky grin he let slip when the Queen looked up at him with pride at his Sandhurst graduation in 2006.
Stepping down as senior Royals, moving to Canada and “continuing to support the Queen” is a farce, especially when the Queen was not told about their bombshell statement to “become financially independent”.
She learned it from the TV. Just let that sink in for a moment to appreciate how eye-wateringly rude that is.
Meghan has always been commercially minded but how this new lifestyle will work is anyone’s guess, especially as they plan to keep Frogmore Cottage as their UK base – renovated recently from the taxpayer purse to the tune of $4 million.
Born a Royal, you are a Royal for life.
And, Meghan, you do not blindside the Queen who frankly could use the support of younger family members after the toxic blaze that is Prince Andrew.
That is rule number one. It’s called marriage for a reason – you absorb into your husband’s family.
You go to the regimental Christmas lunch at Sandringham with the elderly, non PC relatives because it is the decent and respectful thing to do, especially when it was just days after your husband’s grandfather was released from hospital.
You don’t hide in Canada and later crow about “being left alone” when being left alone will actually now be quite catastrophic for your epic plan to exploit all money making opportunities.
By all accounts, there was a blueprint on the table to discuss Megxit so it worked for everyone in the family. That’s standard practice for family dissolution, even for us plebs.
And it has also been reported that a photograph of the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and six-year-old Prince George was the last straw, delivering a message to Harry and Meghan: the future does not include you.
But that is about succession, not favouritism or exclusion.
And by roping Harry, sixth in line to the throne, into her emotional isolation and ambition, my only hope is that unlike Yoko and the chasm left in The Beatles, Meghan will quietly work behind the scenes to repair the relationship with the Queen.