His friends have called it “Operation to bring Harry back from the cold.” By “cold” they mean sunny Montecito where Harry went into self-imposed exile in 2021. It would be more of an internal or social cold. His friends are not the Hollywood celebrities he frequents in California but old friends from England, especially from Eton, the elite school where he studied from the age of fourteen to eighteen, between 2009 and 2013.The “operation” is to get Harry back to the UK, work for the Royal Family again and regain the British people’s favour.
It’s not that his friends have decided to come to his rescue, but quite the opposite. Over the last few weeks, Harry has been sending WhatsApp messages to former colleagues, friends, partners, asking them to help him return. Other British media deny that Harry is thinking of doing so. The truth is that he does not want to return completely, but rather work for The Firm, which is what the Queen called the Royal House, but remain in Montecito.This is what she wanted to do when she announced in January 2020 that she was becoming independent from her family. So he didn’t expect Buckingham Palace to cut all ties with him and Meghan Markle.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry at the premiere of “The Lion King” in London in 2019Gtres
Rumours have been rife after it emerged that two of the Sussexes’ top confidants have resigned in recent months. The first was Josh Ketter, the Sussexes’ chief of staff, who left his post last month after just three months in the role. And the second is Christine Weil Schirmer, head of communications, one of Hollywood’s most prestigious PRs, specialising in reputation management. Schirmer had been working for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex since 2020, at the start of her North American adventure. He is the tenth advisor to stop working for them since they have resided in the United States.
There has also been an apparent distancing from her glamorous and influential circle of friends, which includes the all-powerful presenter Oprah Winfrey, the actor Tyler Perry and the Clooneys. Neither of them promoted Meghan’s new lifestyle venture, American Riviera Orchard, and the Sussexes were not seen at Winfrey’s exclusive birthday party.
These signs of cooling off contrast with the messages he has been sending to his English friends asking them for help in repairing his reputation in the United Kingdom and in rebuilding emotional bridges with his family. They point out that Harry He has grown tired of the advice of his Hollywood advisors that distance him from his essence. And that is why he is looking back again.
One of these friends has already devised a secret plan to return to work for the Royal Family with a low profile, performing small acts, simple functions such as cutting ribbons, nothing to do with what he did before, and do so quietly, without announcements or media loudspeakers, without official statements, in order to regain the esteem and trust of the British, lost the moment he decided to leave.
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And everyone agrees that the only person who can lead this secret plan is Edward Lane Fox, his former private secretary. Lane Fox joined the prince’s team in 2012, when he was going through a public relations crisis after the leak of nude photos during a trip to the United States. He was the architect of the recovery of Harry’s public image amid the avalanche of obscene headlines on the front pages of newspapers. Lane Fox also helped Harry create the games for soldiers wounded in battle, Invictus, in 2014. Like Harry, he had also been a soldier. And later, in 2016, when Harry and Meghan began dating, he was in charge of helping Meghan adapt and breathe in the tight corset of the royal family. They called him “the messenger from heaven” for the tremendous help he was for the then American actress. Lane Fox stepped down as private secretary in 2018, a month before the couple tied the knot in a celebrity-studded wedding in Windsor.
From that moment on, the problems began. In the famous interview with Oprah Winfrey for CBS in 2021, Meghan confessed that she had fallen into a depression, that she thought about taking her own life and that not only was she not helped, but she was isolated even more inside, in the palaces and mansions where her solitary life took place. Meghan and Harry accused the royal house of racism. The English tabloid press has always been very hostile towards the former actress, according to Harry because she is multiracial and foreign.
fraternal rupture
The youngest of Charles III’s sons was the British favourite ahead of his elder brother. The two were always very close, ever since their mother’s death when they were teenagers. When Kate Middleton entered the equation, nothing changed. But it did with the arrival of Meghan. The couple became a real media phenomenon. Until they decided to leave. And everything broke. Or it had already broken before and that’s why they left. Since then the distance has increased even more. Harry’s latest visits to England have shown this distance. He and Meghan are the last “royals” in popularity in British polls. On the tenth anniversary of the Invictus games, in May, no member of the royal family attended the events held in London. Harry wanted to see his father, but he did not give him an audience. At the presentation of some awards named after Diana, the two brothers also avoided coinciding. They say that the relationship between them is totally destroyed and that Harry is not sure that he wants to get it back either. Neither prince spoke to each other when they met at the funeral of their uncle, Lord Fellowes, last week.. They say the king’s firstborn does not want Harry to be present at his coronation when the time comes. The brotherly relationship will be addressed at a later stage of this secret plan, once Harry has started working. Right now it would be a wasted effort. Recovering the relationship with his father is more feasible.
Prince Harry and Prince WilliamGtres
It has recently emerged that Charles is speaking to religious leaders and spiritual guides to delve deeper into the nature of Forgiveness and move on despite the damage caused. In his memoirs, Harry referred to Camilla as his “evil stepmother.” Charles has not seen his grandchildren, Archie and Lilibet, since June 2022 when they attended the Platinum Jubilee of the late Elizabeth II. And no one from the royal family has visited Harry and Megan in California. The breakup is complete. But Charles would be open to a possible reconciliation with his son. They say that he misses him, that he still loves him and that the door remains open for Harry and his family. As soon as he learned of his father’s cancer, he traveled to England. For the time being, he has decided not to update his memoirs for the paperback edition to be published next month and not to give any more interviews.
It is not known who will be in charge of advising Harry on his return, whether it will be Lane Fox or someone else. Whoever is in charge of the operation has a colossal mission ahead of them. After Diana’s death, they devised a public relations campaign to get the people to accept Camilla, who at the time was the villain who broke up the marriage of Charles and Lady Di. She has finally become queen and has been accepted by the British people. Can Harry do the same?
Meghan accused of poverty pornography
Two setbacks for Meghan Markle. The first was the refusal by the US patent office to register the trademark for her new company, American Riviera, which sells jams, cutlery and cookbooks, because the “American Riviera”, as Santa Barbara is known, is considered a geographical term and therefore cannot be patented. The second was the investment that the Duchess of Sussex had made in the handbag company Cesta Collective, made in Rwanda by women with miserable salaries, despite the fact that the company assures that they earn more than the rest. Meghan Markle is accused of making pornography of poverty, when, according to her, she only aims to give visibility and projection to Rwandan women.
Two years without Elizabeth II: private tribute
Today is the second anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, her favourite place. There are no public events scheduled to pay her respects. The British royal family will spend the anniversary at Balmoral. They will attend a morning service to remember her and, during dinner, Charles III will raise a glass and toast his late mother. Kate Middleton’s new biography reveals that she rushed her move from London to Windsor a month before she died so that her husband, Prince William, and their three children, George, Charlotte and Louis, could spend more time with the queen because they knew these were her final days.
