[quote UrbanRambler]@Hekatestorch I think you covered pretty much everything in your post, and I especially liked your last sentence. Yes indeed, they need to shut up. But they won't, so while they are selling their stories for every penny they can get, they will have to take the rough with the smooth. Those who live by the sword, die by the sword, and the media is definitely a double edged sword.
It could have been so different, if M had just adapted herself to her new role, taken time to adjust to her new life and not played the prima donna. There was a massive amount of goodwill towards the couple when they married, and people had high hopes that M would inject a breath of fresh air into the RF, but instead she has soured all that and H seems to have lost the plot completely.[/quote]
It seems as though the royal family needs some kind of family therapy where they can resolve their conflicts. It’s quite unseemly to air out dirty laundry and makes things about tacky. Also, since William and Harry seemed to get along at first after the wedding, and not all protocols were followed when Harry was engaged, not to mention when they were all walking side by side to be then labelled the “Fab Four”; I do think Harry was naively expecting even more protocols to be cast aside especially when the family are usually be expected to walk in accordance to tradition, for example with their funerals, the eldest grandchild stands in the middle, or any public event where they sit or stand or walk, even who they are meant to curtsy too is usually determined by some sort of protocol. Therefore, I don’t think Harry and Meghan expected to play second fiddle. I’m sure if Meghan had proven that she could be trusted with some small responsibilities, she would have been given even more. After all, Harry apparently was the President of the Commonwealth Trust according to Wikipedia and Meghan after marriage was made the Vice President. But much was made of her “hitting the ground running” and I remember her saying something in a Heads Together video, where all 4 are sat together, that there were things she’d like to do etc but maybe in 3 months etc. I think it was 3 months but the video is available on YouTube so it was quite clear that she may have been given some time to adjust before she took on any royal duties. But clearly she was either wasn’t given enough time to learn of protocols or confidently thought that she didn’t need them.
He clearly didn’t give Meghan much warning and relayed stories based on perceived personal slights and as Meghan is mixed and may be sensitive to any form of discrimination, heard second or third hand events that she now believes were racially charged.
Harry probably always felt second best as the “spare to the heir” but as his mother never wanted him to feel this way, William also happily including him along with Kate in their Heads Together campaign, bucking even more traditions, I can see why Harry naively thought, despite being born in such a family, that traditions and protocols can be adapted and changed. He may have known that Archie would never have been a prince as long as QE2 is alive but he may have thought that if some changes could be made for William, so too could they be made for him. Since Harry doesn’t seem to be the sharpest tool in the box, despite having plentiful of emotional intelligence, he probably didn’t even realise that this change was made to prevent the situation the younger male heirs would be considered for the throne before their older, female siblings. So he could have easily relayed to Meghan that their baby would not be a prince or princess despite changes being made for William and then oh and guess so and so expressed concern about what the baby will look like. What the actual context of the conversation with the baby’s potential skin colour, which could easily have been an offhand remark to be prepared if the baby’s skin colour may be discussed in the media and that there might be a fallout if a baby isn’t light skinned etc and this could easily be from a place of love and concern for him and not racially motivated. If this conversation was made at the beginning of Harry’s relationship, he might not have read too much into it until later on when he realised that rules won’t be bent and his future child won’t be a prince or princess straightaway or if ever if Charles does streamline the monarchy.
The full context may not have been elaborated and so to Meghan, who would have been pregnant at that time, it could be as though these two conversations were made in tandem.