When his family step out onto the Buckingham Palace balcony next weekend, it will be clear that Prince Harry's little PR war is over, and that he lost, writes Nicholas Sheppard.
In reality, even with the likes of Meghan Markle, there are complex inter-personal connections, neuroses, histories and grievances.
All the while, they maintained a clockwork schedule of duties, adhering to that enduring royal motto: “never complain, never explain.” In the late nineties, Princess Diana was raw and confessional, especially in her interview in which she revealed “there were three in that marriage, so it was a bit crowded”.
The collapse of the marriage, and sense of her straining to reinvent herself, further raised her astonishing profile.Harry has a few of those elements: the “spare” younger brother, the lack of modern, sympathetic “wraparound” care, for which he can claim a legitimate extent of grievance, and the sting, by association, and out of solidarity, with murkily unclear racial bias in relation to his wife.He lost a parent at a vulnerable age.
Like an adolescent TikTok-er who will drone on histrionically about dramas and slights suffered by a contemporary, rather than actually engaging with and having it out with their cafeteria tormentor, there’s a kind of keening quality to it, underneath the immensely relatable, likable, and let’s face it, highly media polished exterior.If I can rig up an analogy here, full nakedness can be both gratuitous and banal.
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