A journalist has opened up about why Meghan Markle and Prince Harry “just work” as a couple, despite the challenges they faced. The ideas were shared as part of a vanity fair exhibition featured on the magazine’s February cover.
The piece explores various facets of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s lives, from the dynamics of their relationships to their lifestyle and experiences with former staff members. In an excerpt, the journalist explained that Meghan’s approach to understanding her husband’s perspective played a major role in their compatibility.
Meghan “assumed” Harry’s vision rather than researching what it meant to be a royal, which the journalist described as “a good idea for a successful marriage.” However, they added: “It’s a terrible idea for a job, but… if you join this great network of people, you have to see this through your husband’s eyes, be his advocate in it.
And it’s no wonder this relationship worked, even if the family side of the business fell apart.” The writer Anne Peele, who contributed to the exhibition, found their dynamic both “charming” and “Freudian,” describing it as that of a “husband and wife who organize each other’s lives and well-being, who flirt, “They hold hands and want the world to be a better place.”
However, Peele noted that their instinct to approach challenges “how Harry and Meghan believed they should be done, rather than how they are normally achieved” often intensified their conflicts with the institution.
The journalist suggested that part of the couple’s struggles are due to Prince Harry’s own uncertainties. “Harry doesn’t understand himself,” they said. “He doesn’t understand a monarchy.”
Furthermore, they explained that Harry’s difficulties could have their roots in his upbringing. “His family didn’t do a very good job of instilling the family legend in him partly because he didn’t care; in part because they simply abandoned him at the age of eight,” they noted.
While Meghan and Harry’s approach may have disrupted traditional norms, their relationship is described as a partnership based on mutual support, even if it has come with significant challenges.