Why do Valentine Low, Angela Levin, etc, have a greater right to sell stories about the Royal Family than people who have actually lived in that family? Do you honestly not see the hypocrisy? Others can make money off Harry and Meghan's lives, but they can't make money out of their own lives?
From a straightforward consideration of economics and legal rights, they do of course have the right to make money from whatever means are legally open to them.
We don’t live in a vacuum however, and so Harry and Meghan’s life in the Royal Family was all conducted in a context that would have been well understood by them. That, given the huge media interest in all aspects of the senior Royal lives, privacy and loyalty were highly valued. That they were trusted with a great deal of confidential and private information because they were members of a close family and were taken to understand that along with this trust came the responsibility to respect their family and keep that trust.
No-one has stopped them from saying anything, you’ll note - as Meghan famously just said - she hasn’t signed anything. She has her diary of her time in the Royal Family - she can say anything, she tells us. And they both know that the Palace is unlikely to get into an undignified wrangle with them because the Palace has its own image to consider. And they can rely - or thought they could rely - on the fact that the Palace staff were gagged and couldn’t refute their stories (though, as we now know, those NDAs aren’t quite as powerful as the couple may have expected).
Anywhere - where we get to is that Meghan and Harry have taken several opportunities to air the royal family’s internal goings on in public. And it’s also very likely those accounts have been embroidered, spun, and in some cases perhaps outright made up to support Meghan and Harry’s narrative. They have smeared private individuals by name, knowing they can’t fight back. They have inserted barbs into most of their media activities since leaving. And it seems they intend to ramp this up.
No-one is stopping them doing that, as I said. What they, or anyone else, doesn’t get to do however is insist that people don’t form their own opinions of their behaviour. Don’t judge them for selling out their family’s trust to secure their own financial future. Don’t form a poor opinion of them because they are abusing their position as formerly loved family members with access to everything and everyone to now use that position or their personal profit. Don’t think the Royal Family’s now freezing them out utterly is exactly the treatment their behaviour has made inevitable. Let’s face it, if the Palace had thought this was on the cards they would have been on the shortest of leashes from the very beginning.
So I don’t think their situation is remotely comparable to the external parties who pull together what they can from open source information, or those with inside knowledge who they hey can persuade to talk to them. They are not breaching any personal obligations themselves in doin so, unlike Meghan and Harry. They are not the ones demonstrating a serious lack of a moral compass.