I haven’t time to respond to everyone individually about the framing of this as a family dispute to somehow lessen the impact of what Harry has supposedly done, but that wasn’t my intention at all, because I simply don’t see his so called misdemeanours as being serious enough to warrant that frankly.
Harry did not say that King Charles overstepped his constitutional boundaries; as I recall, H explicitly clarified that he never asked the King to intervene in the RAVEC case and only wanted officials to "let the experts do their jobs” in relation to his security dispute.
He did accuse the family of racism and he had to back track on that I believe because he was possibly threatened legally or in some other way if he didn’t recant. Unlike many of you on here, I don’t find it improbable that Meghan faced some racism from some members of the RF.
Unlike some of you on here, I don’t find it improbable that the RF use bullying tactics on people who oppose them in some way either. We know from Lownie’s work that they do frequently use NDA’s and legal letters to silence people. I don’t trust blindly that the RF are a completely benign force for good. Sorry if that upsets anyone!
They undoubtedly do some very good things but why do they need to shield themselves behind such a thick wall of secrecy if everything they are doing is above board?
And on that point; whenever there has been an enquiry in to an issue eg Dumfries House financing, alleged access for passports, minor alleged money laundering, bags for cash etc, the RF are rarely, if ever, found guilty and sometimes, someone else takes the fall. But dodginess is often apparent shall we say! So why do you all trust them so wholly?
Yet those of you who have responded to my posts still refuse to even consider the possibility that the RF and/or the institution did anything wrong when handling H and M. This is unrealistic imho.
The essence of the issue is that if you have a hereditary monarchy then family issues do become state ones and vice versa. Good examples of this are: Edward VIII’s abdication, Princess Margaret’s potential marriage and Princess Diana’s funeral.
To my mind this is problematic; the very fact that family issues do become state ones is something we do not need as a group of countries in 2026. We do not need these issues dominating our headlines when there are far more serious things to think about.
But at its heart imho this still remains a dispute between two brothers with its origins in childhood. Without wishing to sound rude, whether some of you think I am being sincere about this, or not, is a complete irrelevance,