Harry and Meghan announce their "divorce" from the royal family: "We want to work". The queen is "annoyed"
Dukes of Sussex renounce the role of "senior members" of the Windsor house: they will live in Canada and want to become financially independent
LONDON. "You should have seen it, our little Archie in Canada, he was 'aahh' in wonder every time, he meant so much to us. A cryptic sentence that of Meghan, apparently innocent, pronounced on Tuesday as soon as she returned from North America where the former American actress and her husband Prince Harry had spent the Christmas holidays, snubbing the rest of the royal family after an "annus horribilis" for the Queen , see the storm on Prince Andrew.
And instead. Because tonight the sensational press release from the Sussex dukes arrived, on that Instagram channel that they claimed by forcing the royal label: "After many months of discussions", reads a photo of the happy couple underneath, "we decided to hire a new role in the institution. We will no longer be "senior" members of the royal family, we will move to Canada and work to be economically independent ".
In short, Harry and Meghan will become half-bourgeois. “But we will continue”, assure the Dukes of Sussex, “to fully support the Queen and we will fulfill the obligations of the Royal House. We will raise our son in a "geographical balance", respecting the royal tradition, and we will focus on the next chapter, the launch of a new humanitarian organization ".
A shocking announcement, also because it seems that Harry and Meghan did not tell anyone in the family before announcing it to the outside world, not even the Queen, who would be "annoyed". It is no coincidence that Buckingham Palace immediately pulled the reins: “They are complicated things, they take time”. But the discomfort of the two rebels was overwhelming: the secret birth of Archie, the escape from the spotlight and the judicial war on the media, the very expensive (for taxpayers) move to Frogmore Cottage away from William and Kate, the rumors of a move to Africa , an interview in which Meghan said she "exists, not to live" and Harry "that he had disagreements with my brother William", until the last lonely Christmas, right in North America.
Something similar happened with Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936 for another American divorcee, Wallis Simpson. Now many questions remain. Will the reluctant Prince Harry come out of the succession (he's the sixth)? Will he renounce the noble title? Who will pay for their safety in Canada? And how will they live with Meghan, after giving up the 2 million a year that the sovereign passed to them? In reality, Harry still has 20 million assets, Meghan a house in Toronto (where she worked, where the two met and where they may move) and they have registered the Sussex Royal brand, relaunching the name of their charitable foundation.
A future as an online philanthropist and “influencer”? Meanwhile, the hashtag #Megexit and the fury against the American, considered by some, including TV journalism star Piers Morgan, to be the true mastermind of the decision, took place on social media. "What Meghan wants, she gets," Harry once confided to his staff. "
