I also think they thought they would be global superstars when they left and this drove much of their behaviour. They thought the palace was holding them back, putting them in a little box and they were the real stars of the show with huge potential
and to be fair to them, they did have this opportunity . They were not hugely wrong here. At that point they were hot property. What the queen spotted in their plans and disallowed was they couldn’t monetise their titles. But let’s face it they did it anyway.
they squandered their chance at superstardom, because of their distasteful, inelegant, often Petty, arguably dishonest at times and deeply hypocritical behaviour, they habe turned themselves into two of the most controversial, mocked and divisive people out there.
they have no career path to speak of. Literally nothing. Their sole career path is being royal and leveraging it and trading on it to get roles and money.
They do very little charity work themselves and make sure to tip off the paps so they are always photographed when they do do something, so everyone knows, they deride the monarchy repeatedly and take huge sums of money to do it , whilst desperately clinging on to being royal.