Personally I would have 100% respect for H&M if they said, there’s a global pandemic on, we’re going to put our amateur philanthropic plans on hold for the foreseeable- like so many people are having to with their future plans. We will come back and gladly support the Q and RF and W&K who are doing a great job of leading the RF’s response to the health crisis so far.
Coronavirus: William and Kate urge nation to look after their mental health
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They could absolutely bring Doria to live with them, in fact that sounds like it could be a lovely living arrangement, if understandably they would all prefer to be together at such a time. Harry could restart active military work or support his service personnel charities and HIV charities (who will have a lot to pass on to us about how communities can respond to and survive health emergencies).
They could both support young people via the Princes’ trust. They could also look to support international development and wildlife causes after the dust settles on the immediate emergency.
Meghan could support women via Camilla’s DV work. She could support Kate with her early years work. Harry and Meghan both could be NHS volunteers and do phone bank work like thousands of others have signed up for. There is still a role for them, with some limited autonomy in it, as there always has been if they want to take it. They would also be loved for that, if that is what they both need to feel.
The pandemic has ruined their chance of gaining world attention as philanthropists or oligarchy type celebrities or whatever it is they are aiming for. We will all be in global financial uncharted waters after this crisis stage passes. On the other side of this for a long time we will be focused on just surviving- financially, culturally, and keeping focused on solidarity and community.
Nobody will want to see any hint of anyone in power taking the piss with public money. We won’t be fawning over gross conspicuous celebrity consumption. Nor will we want to be expected to listen to empty cliche platitudes from those who spout them without helping others. None of the mood music coming out from LA at the moment is a good fit with any of that.
The UK’s attention in any national crisis does seem to turn to the RF and it will be interesting to see how as a family they will deal with the current absence of H&M and also the request to question Prince Andrew, as time goes on.
I think W&K are doing a grand job of leading the family response at the moment. if i was advising Andrew and the RF I would suggest that they proactively show cooperation with the US authorities now, they could question him remotely. Whatever the outcome of that investigation turns out to be: it would be less big news than Coronavirus is. and then the RF would know they have done the right thing and cooperated.
Andrew’s daughter’s wedding is postponed anyway, so there won’t be any big set piece media dramas over his cooperation, so in fact there couldn’t be a better time for them to do the right thing.
The pandemic crisis and disruption gives the individual members of the RF the opportunity to create a clean slate, or to make good, or to pay their dues (Andrew), if they wanted to take it as such.