Yes, I think he thought he and Meghan would be the ultimate A-listers, friends with the Obamas and the Clooneys, the darlings of the Oscars, Met Gala, fashion weeks, high profile sports games. Harry courtside at basketball games with Tom Cruise and Jay Z, Meghan doing working lunches with Angelina and Amal. They thought they would be billionaires spearheading global human rights campaigns, putting the RF and their fuddy duddy ways to shame with their glamour and charisma. A new enhanced category of IPP status would be invented to recognise how valuable they are to the world. Oprah would be begging for another collab but Meghan would be too busy partying with the young Hollywood set and then solving world hunger and curing all diseases, while Harry with his military experience, psychological insight and a full head of hair put an end to war. How their popularity would soar. I bet the words ‘Nobel Peace Prize’ came to mind… and oh, the imagined jealousy and fury of W+C as they sit and stew in their poxy cottage which doesn’t even have three bathrooms per person, let alone four. The RF would have no choice though, what a huge mistake to let these two go, get them back to modernise us! So they’d be falling over themselves to apologise for the sausages and the dog bowl and the lip gloss, begging H+M to appear with the family every now and then in the hope that some of their glittering success might rub off. They’d realise in time that after Charles a joint kingship would probably be for the best, if H+M could fit it in of course, and Archie and Lili probably ought to leapfrog their cousins in the LoS, because they get hugs and a daily email from their mother.
(I honestly don’t think this would be too far from the truth.)
Instead - a sorry trail of failed endeavours, Meghan now reduced to flogging mass-produced fruit spread and UPF pancake mix, but badly. While Harry wanders around Fulham and mutters about The Establishment.
And people have to ask why people discuss them!