We don’t want to see them flying about on private jets, hobnobbing with A list celebrities and spending the taxpayer’s money like water. We don’t want to see them editing Vogue, tweeting baby foot photos and touting for work at film premieres.
The thought crossed my mind when I was watching the Oprah interview, that an actor should actually be very good at the job, and there was a lot of excitement about having a BAME royal (all the better to represent the country), but that the average Californian Hollywood type was the antithesis of what a makes a good royal (all that LA emphasis on self development, self promotion and self expression).
At the very least MM needed a really frank, pre-engagement briefing about how it was a team job, the palaces are all draughty and a lot of the tasks and visits involved are dull or repetitive. The reason she wasn’t properly briefed is that Harry didn’t want her scared off.
Maybe he didn’t analyse it all very well, and was just acting from a place of hurt that his previous GFs hadn’t wanted to join the family. They apparently cited the media exposure as being too much. So maybe he went out of his way to find a real extrovert, and just didn’t think it through in other aspects.
I’m increasingly thinking he is the one to blame for much of this, though, be it because of fear, loneliness, lack of realism, inability to analyse and communicate effectively, or whatever else. He did know the system, though, and she didn’t. So I think it’s on him.