Prince Harry in Beverly Hills at a Kardashian party; Prince William at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. This is the sort of seminal moment that crystallizes thoughts for BP.
You have to hand it to Meghan, she’s finally got where she wanted to be from when she was a little girl. She’s made it (“it” being this sort of party and this sort of headline). She’s hustled and grifted and married and divorced and married and sold her family and lied and bullied - and finally made the headlines with A Listers. Harry, though? I can’t believe he isn’t conflicted, but I think he lacks the intelligence to work through that conflict.
There’s a thread running at the moment about a woman complaining about her son’s history tutor. She seems to be exactly what ex-employees say about Meghan Markle: doesn’t listen to the experts, thinks she knows best, working her way through tutors because none of them or the teacher know anything and why can’t they just do what she wants them to do, complaining she’s the victim for being poorly spoken to and disrespected/insulted. Most posters think she’s on the wind-up, the thread is that batshit. But you can just see it, how she thinks she knows everything and nobody else knows anything. The DH apparently is the type to nod and say “whatever you think best, dear” which would be Harry, too, except he also desperately needs Meghan to tell him what to do and how to live. And Meghan will always feel vindicated because look where her MO has got her relative to where she started. And she wouldn’t be wrong.
It just depends what your priorities are. I don’t think Meghan’s and Harry’s are aligned, but he needs someone to tell him how to exist and she’s made sure she is the only person he can turn to. She to needs him to get where she wants, and she’s convinced him mutual need is what counts for a strong partnership and marriage and love. That sentence on the JKL podcast “that man loves me so much” was so deeply unsettling, and I can’t work out why. Life for Meghan is transactional, that’s how she views everything, absolutely everything. It’s the only world she’s ever known (“don’t give your milk away for free”) and it’s the only way she knows how to operate. That’s not how Harry was raised, even if it’s how his life was lived. I think he still hasn’t realised how he’s been and being used.