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When Prince Harry play, Charles has a huge task cut out for
announced to the him. He needs to show that he is capable,
world that he was compassionate and ready to modernise the
about to write a tell- monarchy without making it redundant.
all memoir for all A difficult task ahead and one for a man
the people to know. who in other walks of life would be retired
I cannot help but and sunning himself in his back garden,
wonder who would perhaps with a beer or wine in hand in
be interested in his the late afternoon, admiring his flowers or
life story if he was veggies. Harry’s book is a new soap opera
not a prince? He comes from a position of in the life of the British monarchy, but give
privilege and entitlement, regardless of them credit they know how to handle these
how much he claims to be an ‘ordinary things. Diana’s divorce, death and various
man’. He has led a sheltered life of people others. Divorces and scandals that are still
fawning and groveling in front of him. He in the closet waiting to tumble out.
sadly was number two in the pecking order At the heart of Harry’s narrative is his
and was really just ‘the spare’ in the royal defense of his wife, Meghan against her
lineage. Now he has moved even further persecution by the tabloid press and the
down the ranks of being a possible heir to alleged complicity of his family in this.
the throne and finds himself redundant. From Harry’s perspective, his powerful
He has a right to tell his own story and may passion for Meghan has led to the current
have had a difficult childhood losing his rift with his family and the couple’s
mother at a young age, but then so have new life in California. There, Harry and
many millions of kids. Meghan are just Mr and Mrs Windsor.
He enjoys highlighting flaws in other
people, but not in himself or Meghan. He is
obviously an unhappy man and unhappy
with his birth family. It’s sad that he took
his dirty linen to the airing cupboard of
mainstream media. It appears he had a
recent fight with his brother. So what?
Sibling rivalry and antagonism run in
most families and certainly men tend to
use physical force to convey their anger or
Harry, as Prince, has no doubt already frustration.
lived a life in a goldfish bowl. His father Prince Harry has rejected his royal life in
seems to have been forgiven for his England and attempted to make a new life
infidelities, and many people believe that at in the US, cosying up to Netflix and Spotify
least now he is happy to be with the woman to provide him with publicity and money.
he loved. Today in the media driven world But there are contradictions in all of this.
the Crown, the Sceptre with the Cross, Who would be interested in him if he
the sovereign cape, are all things that we wasn’t English royalty? He is attempting
would find in a fancy dress children’s to have his life both ways, rejecting and yet
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