Meghan Markle drives another wedge into the Royal family
Prince Harry is rapidly becoming the Fredo Corleone of the Royal family as his wife turns him against one of the Queen’s most beloved institutions, the Commonwealth, writes Louise Roberts.
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Once again a former Hollywood actor and her husband Harry are reminding us to check our biases.
Not content with quitting the royal family and moaning about how hard-done-by they have been ever since, Megs and Harry Inc are using every opportunity to lecture the British Commonwealth, and by extension the entire world, about the evils of institutional racism.
Their Megxit careers are hardly flourishing the way they had hoped, what with COVID and their critical error of not returning to the UK to work alongside and support the NHS and emergency service heroes, the glue keeping everyone together there.
Meanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, plus their three ridiculously polite, mature and photogenic children have totally owned that space with dignity and natural aplomb.
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But the Meg and Haz woke mission continues unabated.
This week the pair hopped on to the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust video call, no doubt sensing yet another golden opportunity to again bite the hand that feeds them.
That would be the royal family, Harry’s family, his brother, his father, nephews and nieces, grandfather, aunts and so forth, but most significantly his grandmother, the Queen.
As has been widely reported, his nan was slung royally under the PC bus when he told the call that we must acknowledge the Commonwealth’s uncomfortable past and that there is “no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past”.
“So many people have done such an incredible job of acknowledging the past and trying to right those wrongs, but I think we all acknowledge there is so much more still to do,” Harry said.
Yes, the Commonwealth is such a backwards institution steeped in racism and retrograde thinking that nations like Rwanda and Mozambique have in recent years joined the organisation — despite not having any historical or constitutional ties to other member states.
I once described Meghan as the Yoko Ono of the royal family.
Some disagreed, arguing that the conceptual artist in top-to-toe white did not pull the pin that detonated the Fab Four because “they were already breaking up”.
Alas, that other awesome foursome — Kate and Wills, Harry and Meghan, who looked so glossy and buoyant together — also hit the rocks because an outsider, Meghan, did not bend to the will of monarchy.
And so we can draw another analogy in popular culture.
Harry’s other problem is that he has become the Fredo Corleone of the Windsor family.
Fans of the Godfather series of films will recall how the hapless Fredo, wanting a bigger role for himself in the family business, was turned against his brother by those scheming to bring the Corleones down.
It’s much the same with Meghan, whose determined Hollywood causes and seeming embrace of the sort of ideology that doesn’t just want to fight racism but tear down the past as well, puts her in opposition to everything the heirs to the British Empire stand for.
Without putting her on the analyst’s sofa, it’s not hard to see how Meghan would find it irresistible to use Harry’s royal cachet against the royal family.
His relatives are the very essence of currently the two most evil words in the English language according to the new woke left — “white privilege”.
The couple’s sermon from on high this week has rightly irritated many folk who have no appetite for being told what to do by an ambitious duo living rent-free in a Hollywood mansion.
“It’s not going to be easy and in some cases it’s not going to be comfortable, but it needs to be done, because, guess what, everybody benefits. I think there’s a hell of a lot that we together need to acknowledge but I only see hope and optimism in the fact that we can only do this together,” Harry said. And so on.
Meghan added: “It’s not just in the big moments, it’s in the quiet moments where racism and unconscious bias lies and thrives,” she said.
“It makes it confusing for a lot of people to understand the role that they play in that, both passively and actively.”
Anti-racism is now their brand and while fighting racism is a noble cause, to see racism in everything is to devalue what should be a very heavy charge.
What’s more, to undermine the Queen and an institution that is also important to our Australian way of life is hardly a brave and enlightening course to take.
Harry is the one who has been bred with the sense of duty in his veins and to cherish the monarchy and all it stands for — yes, including the Commonwealth.
It was only a few years ago, after all, that he was best known as the face of the Invictus Games.
It might have an uncomfortable past but to crowbar the Queen into this woke mission is tasteless and nonsensical.
Instead, press pause on Harry’s hostage video and watch the Queen‘s address on coronavirus in April when it dawned on us globally that we were sliding into a very dark era.
In her jade-green wool dress with three-rope pearls, Her Majesty said with conviction: “I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.
“And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.
“That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country.
“The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.”
It is a message from the heart that her grandson and his grandiose wife would do well to digest and dispense to their Tinseltown acolytes.
They have more to learn from a 94-year-old on how to navigate life than any hire-helped scriptwriter.
If only they had the sense to know that you don’t turn your back on your family.