Like others have said, whatever they do, they’re going to get slammed by the media. When they first moved, I wanted them to succeed. I could understand the feelings of wanting to be free from a suffocating life, free to chart their own course - I just didn’t think they’d do it by selling the family secrets. I think that’s largely the source of all their trouble. I watched the documentary and read Spare (doing so with an open mind) and honestly, it sounded like ordinary family squabbles to me. If I wrote a book about all the mean squabbles my siblings and I have had over the years, it would make yucky reading but actually we love each other fiercely.
In Spare, it came across as though they were a family blown apart by Diana’s death but underlying it, his dad and brother (and later Kate) really loved him but like every family, sometimes they screwed up. It didn’t read as particularly abusive - just a family struggling to find sense after a massive loss. Somewhere along the line Harry seemed to have been sold the concept of special victim status as though his pain was worse than anyone else’s though.
Anyway, I still think it would be good if they could make a genuine new life for themselves but I just don’t understand the approach. From a business/marketing POV, it’s totally chaotic. I used to work in celeb PR so I know something of how this world works. In just a few years, they’ve had several reinventions. They started out as ‘serious philanthropists’, setting up a foundation, aligning themselves with worthy causes like the environment (very Obama-ish) and then it was reality TV/Netflix and now it’s a weird mix of Martha Stewart/domestic goddess blended with twerking mama.
None of that makes sense! It’s like they don’t even know the end goal themselves. Maybe they don’t.