This is the key point. Do you think this was explained in any way to MM when she got engaged to Harry - how Royalty differs to celebrity, the careful tightrope she’d have to walk between her private ventures and the public interest? The likely press intrusion and how to handle it? Or did they just think love would conquer all?
I think they thought love would conquer all. Harry is not very bright, he had the best education money can buy but he still failed all his A’Levels except art. I think he met this woman who was quite a bit cleverer than him with a lot of grandiose ideas about changing the world. He thinks she’s amazing and hangs on her every word and he can’t understand why everybody else doesn’t see her genius. The problem is, although she’s dazzled Harry, she is an actress and occasional activist who doesn’t really have any qualification to politically lecture citizens of a country and culture she doesn’t really seem to have much of an interest in finding out. The only qualification she has for influence is who she married, and that is a jarring anachronism in the modern world.
There are good reasons why Royals don’t get involved in politics. Neither of them appear to understand that reason. Harry is particularly dopey because he has had two perfect examples of what not to do from the previous two spares to the heirs (Margaret and Andrew) but he is bungling along just as they did.
Margaret was indulgent, fond of luxury and imperious, sunning herself on Mustique with various celebrities. The Sussexes are overspending and hob nobbing with celebrities who use them for publicity.
The situation with them now is almost a mirror of the early days of Fergie and Andrew, she was pilloried for her faux pas and indulged herself in royal privileges too much. Apparently it was ‘a party everyday’ when she lived at Buckingham Palace, and that was taxpayer funded. He really is silly not learning from the past.