Illnesses in families can be a reason for reconciliation, so it is encouraging to know that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have sent a tender private message to their brother and sister-in-law following the moving announcement by the Princess of Wales.
This communication, which followed a public statement from Montecito wishing Kate “health and healing”, was said to have been the first in months between the warring Welsh brothers.
Let us all hope that the truce, if there is one, lasts and that Meghan and Harry are finally welcomed back into the Royal Family and, perhaps one day, into the hearts of the British nation.
God knows the royals could use it. With the King and Kate temporarily out of action due to illness, there is a real need for others to contribute, especially in the lower-profile, less glamorous work of charities and sponsors.
Harry and Meghan seem to want to echo the bad behavior of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, says AN Wilson
How must Harry have felt last Friday when he heard Kate’s sad news, expressed so bravely?
Let’s also not forget Donald Trump’s veiled threat, if he is re-elected to the White House in November, that he could expel Harry from the United States for allegedly giving misleading accounts of his prior drug use in his visa application. “If he lied, they will have to take appropriate measures,” said the former president.
If this downright hilarious event were to occur, Meghan would probably be asked to abandon her California lifestyle (not to mention her highly anticipated new luxury jam company) and bring Archie and Lilibet to live in Windsor Great Park, and maybe to go to school. with George, Charlotte and Louis. If you were writing the actual soap opera script, you couldn’t expect a more delicious plot twist.
So yes, let’s hope that both Sussex and Cambridge forgive each other and become friends again, despite all the terrible things that have been said.
However, I still wonder: How must Harry have felt last Friday when he heard Kate’s sad news, expressed so bravely?
After all, it was he who claimed on his tacky Netflix show: “I think for a lot of people in the family (especially, obviously, the men) there can be a temptation or a need to marry someone who fits the mold instead.” to do it.” to someone you may be meant to be with.
Its meaning was clear. He, Harry, had married for love: while William, and perhaps his father, had coldly married someone who simply looked the part, out of a misguided sense of duty.
The unease that arose from this deplorable claim only deepened when Harry and Meghan’s appalling spokesman Omid Scobie wrote in his error-filled anti-monarchy book Endgame that Kate was a “Stepford-style royal wife” who was content to be a “real woman.” symbol without voice’. (Sources later admitted to Scobie that “there’s no way (Kate) can trust (the Sussexes) after all of her interviews.”)
Before Harry met Meghan, he and Kate had been true friends: by his own admission, she was “the sister I never had and always wanted.”
So if her brave video last week accomplished anything, I hope it made Harry reflect on how he’s treated her.
After all, it seems to me that many of the problems facing the Royal Family right now can be attributed to him and Meghan.
They are the ones who brought to light the rift between the two brothers. They are the ones who raised the incendiary claim that some royals are secret racists. They are the ones who insulted Kate, knowing that she couldn’t respond.
Her foolish decision to go public with her seething resentments against the House of Windsor has done far more damage to the royal image than any alleged intrusion into her privacy by the press, let alone the delusional fantasies of social media trolls.
William, Kate and Harry enjoy the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations in 2016
Kate, William and the Sussexes attend the Queen’s funeral in September 2022, by which time the rift was already cemented
The truth is that he and Meghan were too self-absorbed and ultimately too lazy to carry out the daily work of royal duty that Kate, Princess Anne, and the king and queen have done so faithfully for years.
His small attacks and decision to retire in early 2020 were a mini-abdication of sorts.
And the malice with which they have mocked and vilified the Royal Family is another way in which they seem to want to echo the bad behavior of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. (The disturbing thing is that as time goes by, Meghan becomes more and more like Wallis, her divorced American colleague.)
Harry, in short, has a lot to clean up, and it would be wonderful if Kate’s sad news were the stimulus for him to feel, and even express, a modicum of humility for a change.
Yes, we should take some comfort from the private message he and Meghan sent to the Prince and Princess of Wales. But there is no need to get your hopes up: there is much work to be done to close this gap, if it can ever be closed.