I’ve been thinking quite a lot about Harry’s attitude towards the RF and I’ve noticed that whenever he and Meghan are accused of lying, or exaggerating or changing their stories, there’s a common theme running through all these untruths.
And that is: we are victims, we have have suffered
So some of these are verified lies, some just likely to be lies, but off the top of my head
- I got a call from an aide telling me the Queen Mother had died - “Aren’t my family so cold that I found out in that terrible way” (a verified lie)
- Archie wasn’t going to be given a title -“Poor us, we aren’t getting what the first son is getting” (a verified lie)
- Daddy took away my security - “Poor us mean people want to kill us and Pa doesn’t even care!” (A verified lie)
- Someone made a comment about concern for the baby’s skin colour - “I’m a victim of racism poor me”
- 3 days before our wedding me got married - “We were soooo oppressed by this archaic culture that makes us have this awful spectacle, we just HAD to break free and do our own thing”(a verified lie)
- Archie wasn’t going to be given security - “They want him to die!” (A verified lie)
- We didn’t feed Omid Scobie information for his book - “Poor me I had to get My Truth out there because everyone is mean!” (A verified lie)
- We had a high speed car chase through NYC - “We are such victims people want to kill is the same way they killed mummy” (a verified exaggeration)
- Kate made me cry not the other way around - “Poor me she’s out to get me”
- I wasn’t allowed to see a doctor, someone said it wouldn’t be good for the institution- “Poor me they want me to suffer”y family sell stories about me - “They’re out to get me because they’re jealous!”
- The UK is too unsafe for us - “An otherwise safe country wants to hurt and kill us for no good reason!”
I ask myself “Why would they do that”. It’s quite bold to grow up among immense wealth and privilege, having had done very little actual work, to then decide to convince normal people who struggle pay the electric bill that you are actually the biggest perpetual victim of all.
Because I FULLY believe that Victim is their entire brand and they planned to cultivate it from the very beginning.
I think they chose “Victim” as their MO because Harry is VERY aware he was Poor Harry for many years because at the age of 12 he lost his mum and walked behind her coffin. He knows the public took that Harry into their hearts and in the preceding years forgave him for some absolutely shocking behaviour.
So what do two talentless people with very little to offer outside the royal family, do when faced with the question of “How will we become popular and sustain popularity”? they’ve decided what worked before was “Make them feel sorry for us” - couple it with a “we are so in loooove” byline and, on paper, you have a good LA-esque brand idea.
However, in reality when you’re a 40 year old man sitting in a $14 million mansion in an Armani suit, a millionaire in your own right, moaning (lying) about how daddy cut you off, it doesn’t quite cut the same as a cute 12 year old boy in mourning.
And FWIW I don’t think that it’s all Meghan doing this. I think he’s always been a petulant nasty envious little prick and his People repressed it very well for a long time, but he met another petulant prick and they became an unstoppable force together.