Meghan Markle and Harry, this last salvo that hurts: "We no longer care about you"
Meghan Markle and Harry have an interest in having their defense prepared. This April 24, a first hearing will take place, about the dispute between them and the editor of the Daily Mail and Mail On Line for more than a year. But it is a tribune, overwhelming, which may well prevent them from sleeping for the next few nights ...
It is an indictment that should bring them to the ground, as long as they learn about it. This is not the counterattack of the editor of the Daily Mail and the Mail On Line, which will have to defend itself from having infringed the intellectual property and the privacy of the Sussexes by distributing a letter from Meghan to his father, during a highly anticipated first hearing on April 24. This last trial will be long, risky for the Windsors and without pecuniary benefit for the Sussexes. But for the couple, he is a more formidable enemy than the four tabloids with which the grandson of Elizabeth II and his wife have decided to toughen the standoff. Her name: Sarah Vine.
Wife of Michael Gove, himself a member of the British Conservative Party very close to the Crown and Boris Johnson, Sarah Vine is also a feared royal columnist. To the point that she was placed alongside Prince William, during the state dinner given in honor of Donald and Melania Trump in Buckingham, in June 2019. This April 22, it is his younger brother Harry and his wife who 'she decided to serve copiously in a formidable column published by the Daily Mail.
"How are you ?"
Full of biting irony, Sarah Vine begins her letter to the Sussexes, already severely curtailed by The Spectator, with this question: "How are you? I know no one asks you, so I would rather inquire about it. . " A barely veiled allusion to Meghan's lamentations, during her couple's trip to South Africa, in the fall of 2019. The rest of her text is no less treacherous. Discrediting the couple who temporarily took refuge in a luxury bunker in Los Angeles, in the midst of a global pandemic, the royal columnist pretends to be moved by the "stress" of the Sussexes in search of a home: "All these unaffordable villas with Californian decorum that you must visit, without forgetting all those confidentiality clauses that you have to get signed (you can never be suspicious enough of those who clean the swimming pools) and that constant anxiety that one of your Bodyguards paid for by British taxpayers spill your coffee cup, wanting to protect your son from shady fans ... Really, I sympathize. "
"I don't know if you know, but the epidemic doesn't really spare us"
Without real empathy for the isolation that is beginning to weigh on the couple, Sarah Vine then tackles the slate they still have not settled: the renovation of Frogmore Cottage. Opposing their Californian way of life to that of the British severely affected by the Covid-19, the columnist recalls - rightly and always with irony - that "it must be all the same better than being in an awful little cottage in Windsor (embellished by the taxation of taxi drivers, housekeepers and nurses), next to an old lady who confiscated your titles and forbade you to use the private jet of that brave Elton (John) . "
No longer convinced by the recent outings of the Sussexes in the streets of LA to deliver meals, in front of the lens of very knowledgeable paparazzi, Sarah Vine drives the point home a little more, by reminding the couple of the daily life of the British: "Enough talk of you, you are probably wondering how Albion is doing, considering your spontaneous outbursts and your demonstrated generosity over the past few days, all the humanitarian work you tirelessly carry on and your special "connection" with the elephants. tell you, it's going like this, like that. " Mocking Harry's very awkward exit on the ravages of the pandemic, Sarah Vine scoffs, falsely innocent: "I don't know if you know, but the epidemic does not really spare us (...) Not everyone is not fortunate enough to have rich parents who fund tough days. "
"Whatever you decide to do, don't worry about us"
The Daily Mail columnist delivers the coup de grace, referring to the constant mobilization of other members of the royal family: "By the way, Harry, your father and your father, not to mention your grandparents, did not spare their efforts to boost the morale of the country. William and Kate even did an interview with Zoom recently. Super odd considering they had nothing to promote. " Sarah Vine ends her letter, with no possible objection: "Either way, I must leave you. Take care of yourself in these difficult times and whatever you decide to do, don't worry about us. Because, frankly, we don't care about you anymore. " Ouch...
