Maybe not but the total volume of noise created collectively about this couple, could be damaging , if it encourages some nutter to act with ill intent.
And media pile ons are unpleasant per se. They are the modern equivalent of the village stocks.
Also, sorry to harp on, but I find it quite strange and baffling when a hugely powerful, rich, influential institution like the monarchy feels it’s necessary to close its doors on individuals like Harry or Diana and freeze them out for speaking publicly when they still protect Andrew despite his very dubious, perhaps even criminal, behaviour.
He is being investigated by police for allegedly abusing vulnerable women, making dodgy side deals and giving away state secrets, but it’s ok, he just made a complete bog of things on Newsnight. he didn’t criticise The Firm or The Family! How very loyal and good! 😏
It gives the impression that silence and loyalty is valued by BP above merit and above right and wrong.
It smacks of an organisation that is unprofessional and toxic. Why do they need to be so secretive? What in reality are they really protecting?
I can understand them getting antsy about the racism charge because there have been solid grounds for that accusation in the past. But why not admit that some of them may have been unconsciously racist towards Meghan if that was her experience? It might have been positive in PR terms to be less reactive and defensive and at least give the impression of engaging in the debate?
Seriously, why is there such need for extreme privacy and lack of openness within the family and the institution if everything is above board within them?
It does seem strange to have to make an appointment with your own father, especially when Charles complained about the formality and distance between him and his own parents!
Even if The Firm felt they had behaved well towards Harry, wouldn’t it have been better to issue a statement saying “yes we took our eye off the ball with Meghan and Harry because these issues arose at a time when the late Queen and Prince Philip were ill, everyone was dealing with Covid and it was a fraught time.We are now working together to make amends”
A statement like that would have taken the wind out of everyone’s sales.
The Palace would have come out of it as sympathetic, human and flexible - something I suspect they are not.
The whole shebang would have died away.
And the media wouldn’t have been able to blow up and make tons of profit from the family feud.
And H&M would have saved face, wouldn’t have been pushed in to a corner, and their response would possibly not have been so impulsive and extreme.
It’s all got very much out of hand.
For BP with highly trained PR personnel, it’s very odd, which leads me to speculate whether the H&M noise was encouraged while the worst of AMW’s disgrace was in the papers.
I wonder if BP have heard on the grapevine that AMW will now not be charged so it’s ok for H&M to return to the fold? 😉
Now that is wild* *speculation on my part and as such is hypocritical, so I’ll leave it there.
Although I think speculation about a powerful rich influential institution supported by tax payers is possibly a tad more legitimate than speculation about spurned individuals within it who seem to exist outside of the protective PR wagon circle.