With H&M the response to hitting the ground running should have been a firm No
You're right in hindsight, although she was a 36 year-old independent woman and I'm not sure if I would have accepted being told 'no, you're not ready' then either. C'mon, she must have thought, how hard can it be?
That blind about the original Africa plans has been bothering me. If there's any truth in it (and it all seems perfectly reasonable) then Harry really was misled big-time. I could see him being over the moon (and falling hopelessly in love) with someone also wanting that sort of future but it's a complete polar opposite to where he's ended up now.
As for any billionaire queuing up in the future - well, that didn't work out well for Jackie O, by all accounts.