Buckingham: Now settled in the United States, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved away from the British monarchy. A decision with serious consequences for the couple who must today evolve without the support of the Queen. But a choice, obviously considered in view of the discomfort they seemed to experience and their obligations which no longer suited them.
One of the reasons for this historic decision for the English monarchy, could also come from the media pressure suffered by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as soon as their marriage is announced. Very criticized by the tabloids, the American actress has been the subject on many occasions articles dependent, describing her as an extremely difficult person. All the less flattering qualifiers have been used against him. English journalists, or at least some, described Meghan like a person far from friendly, being able to spend money without counting, who could be pretentious, and who would even be a bad mother. Judgments that did not stop there, even accusing him of marrying one of the heirs to the British Crown, in order to increase his notoriety and protect himself financially.
Attacks that would have seriously hurt Harry who before his exile had tried to reverse the trend. The youngest son of Prince Charles had requested the help of the royal family and the teams in charge of relations with the press, in order to try to change things. In an interview for The Cut, the English journalist, Omid Scobie, revealed that Prince Harry had done everything, so that Buckingham Palace could help him restore the reputation of Meghan Markle : ” In the summer of 2019, Harry had a conversation with his team and senior advisers at Buckingham Palace to review the policy regarding press contacts, as he wanted Meghan and it can communicate with a larger and more diverse media pool ”.
Meghan and Harry and the Buckingham
Indeed, in England, any journalist does not have the right to communicate with the royal family of Buckingham. A list is drawn up by the principal advisers of the Queen and her entourage. A selection that is made according to criteria that we imagine favorable to royalty, but also with a vision of things very conservative. So Harry wished that he and his wife could communicate directly with media outlets that might be a little more modern or with a different frame of mind.
But despite these many requests, the answer has always been the same. “ If you want to do that, well you can pay for your own commitments ” reported Omid Scobie during his interview. A response and a lack of support, which may have been one of the triggers for the couple’s decision to move away from the Royal Family and Buckingham. A choice that would allow them to better control their image and also be freer in their movements. Revelations that can be found in the biography Finding Freedom, which tries to explain the distance from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry of the British Monarchy.
Visibly tired by the obligations due to his rank, Lady Diana’s son therefore gave up his titles to initially go into exile in Canada with his wife. On January 13, 2020, an extraordinary family council took place in presence of Her Highness Queen Elizabeth II of England, her eldest son Charles and her grandsons William and Harry. The prince had therefore taken the decision to announce to his grandmother and the rest of his family that he wanted to leave the United Kingdom permanently and give up his titles. He wanted to be released from his royal engagements and now wanted to live his own life.
Very young Harry had also made an astonishing revelation to his brother William. Realizing fully that he was not first in the order of succession, he already felt relieved of some pressure. ” One day you will be king and I will not. So I have the right to do whatever I want ” Harry had said when he was a child. And it is true, that the younger son of Charles and Lady Of will always have taken some liberties with the label. We had seen him disguised as a Nazi at a masked ball, smoking joints or drinking beer, in photos that had caused a scandal in the press.
An attitude that the British people have often forgiven, always seeing in him the little 12-year-old boy who was told of the death, in a road accident, of the one who had given birth to him. Since that terrible night, during which Diana, accompanied by Dodi al-Fayed, his driver and a bodyguard had had this terrible accident in Paris under the Alma bridge, the little boy was no longer really the same. This tragedy will have him deeply Mark, but will also have engendered mistrust total for the press, which has not always been kind to its family.
When he meets Meghan in 2016, royalty did not see this young American woman as a possible contender for a position within the British crown. Actress, mestizo, divorced and feminist were all qualities that did not fall within the standards of a possible future princess of England. Since their marriage in 2018, Meghan and Harry knew things would not be easy and that they would have to fight to impose their point of view. But obviously the war was over and flight was the only solution.
Now living in the United States and parents of a little boy named Archie, the spouses seem perfectly happy with their new life. The bride and groom would even have just moved at the beginning of this month of August 2020 to elect residence in a very upscale neighborhood of Santa Barbara, a wealthy city by the sea about 150 km from Los Angeles, the City of Angels. A very chic place where the queen of American television also resides, Oprah Winfrey.
But despite this exile, Meghan and Harry are still the target of journalists and paparazzi since their arrival on the American continent. Systematically, a complaint is filed against the indiscreet and the American justice seized of the file. “I lost my mother and now I see my wife becoming the victim of the same powerful forces” had confided the prince, a few months ago, to make understand to those who wanted to hear it, that he and his wife had decided to live far from the objectives and that their choice had to be respected.
–
