In a way, I can follow their reasoning: we’re not costing the public anything and we’re financially self-sufficient. We therefore don’t owe you anything and you have no hold over us. We are free to do whatever we want. You do owe us security though because I’m never going to stop being the monarch’s son and brother and this is something I can’t do anything about. But beyond that, we’re free to forge our own path, do our own thing - any access we give you to our calendar so dates don’t clash is a concession on our part and you should be grateful because we really don’t have to do this.
I get that thinking. It’s like any grown child leaving toxic parents and going their own way.
Obviously, though, given they are throwing potshots at the toxic family and the media and the judiciary and the public and doing so publicly, no doubt because they feel nobody is going along with their version of freedom (and they really don’t have anyone powerful backing them in this), this is going to result in two things. This isn’t David and Goliath - it’s a snake taking on a lion thinking it will win. It won’t. It will lose. Secondly, although this will happen first chronologically I think, they will lose their titles/status and will force the King’s hand in distancing himself, his family, the institution and HM’s govt and the military from them.
I’ve just read a report that the Diana documentary is to be narrated by Meghan, who feels she’s best placed to do so because she knows what Diana went through as she too has suffered (more monetization, you ask? A leopard doesn’t change its spots, I say). If that happens, that will be the end of any relationship between family members and H&M. Not a constitutional matter so not the thing to trigger removal of titles/styles/etc (that’ll be Harry publicly criticizing HM govt policy on this or that). But a nasty, cruel theft from Diana’s living relatives other than Harry.