Death of Prince Philip: will Meghan and Harry go to the funeral?
After their devastating interview with Oprah, relations between the couple and royalty were shattered. However, the two young men would look very bad if they did not go to London to say goodbye to Harry's beloved grandfather, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.
Last week, a statue to be built in honor of Princess Diana sparked a wave of speculation. In order to inaugurate it, the two sons of Diana, William and Harry, were invited. However, not even her mother's 60th birthday seemed to reunite them. The date was July 1, but Harry was unconfirmed and it was rumored that his return to the UK was near impossible. However, the death of Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband, changed all that. Now, the world will have its eyes on Harry and Meghan. Faced with the sad death of his grandfather, the young prince and his wife would look very bad if they put their disagreements with the family above that farewell. But if they go to London they will also be the talk of all the media, mostly upset at the damage they did to the UK with their interview.
Prince Felipe was, unwittingly, one of the protagonists of the controversial interview with Oprah. The patriarch of the family was very ill in those days and had been transferred to a hospital. Many days after that explosive appointment, when the crisis in the royal family was already a resounding truth, both Harry and Meghan let it be known that they would have canceled the interview if the grandfather died.
Felipe spent several days without knowing what his grandson had done, but once he recovered temporarily, it was said that he would be the only person who could help fix that crisis. In the media the version had already been published that he had been in charge of approaching Harry and managing to heal those wounds.
However, the gap that both Harry and Meghan created is huge. The person in the royal family who would have asked Harry if his son was dark is still being sought. Although it has been speculated that she may be Princess Anne, nothing is confirmed. It also created a huge fight with William, who privately criticized Harry using private conversations on a television show and Meghan speaking ill of Kate, who she claimed she had even made her cry before marriage. He added that the courtiers also forbade her to go out with his friends and asked her to be "fifty percent less Meghan Markle."
The truth is that since Harry and Meghan shook the world in 2020 with the announcement of their departure from the monarchy, it was known that sooner or later they would vent. Although Buckingham Palace was ready to be dispatched, the bombing, which was seen coming, took everyone by surprise.
Until today, the Windsor scandals had been about sheets. And while some of them wore race-themed goggles in the past (like when Harry disguised himself as a Nazi or his grandfather Felipe was rumored to be pro-Hitler), there has never been talk of such a frontal discriminatory attack from a member of the house.
In her statement in response to the program, the queen said that some of the things said by the Sussexes are questionable. At least that is how some interpret the expression while some recollections may vary (while some recollections may vary), used to announce that she will investigate the subject privately. "It's an exquisite line to accuse the Sussexes of living in a Disney-style fantasy world," said royal biographer Tom Bower.
Harry and Meghan gave rise to being seen as ambiguous and in the United Kingdom there are thousands who today view them with mistrust. Among others, because facts have been known that show that they lied in the interview; for example, the supposed secret wedding that even the country's cardinal denied that it existed.
On the other hand, it is not understood how he, who has campaigned on mental health and admitted to going to therapy to overcome the trauma caused by the death of his mother, failed to provide professional help to his wife. On the other hand, media such as the Daily Mail noted that she claimed that Archie's color talks occurred when she was pregnant, while Harry claimed it was before the wedding.
Another contradiction is about a possible noble title for Archie. Before the delivery, they said, family members warned them that he would not have the right to any, and Meghan interpreted it as another display of racism. The worrying thing for her was that it would leave him unsafe.
The royal chroniclers, however, remember that by a directive of King George V, only the sons and grandsons of the monarch and those to whom he grants that title are princes. Furthermore, at the initiative of Carlos, Harry's father, it is sought that the royal family is increasingly compact and that their not-so-close relatives lead a normal life without depending on the Crown.
Although the dukes seemed aligned with this idea when Archie was born, it turned out in the interview that they were after a title for him, which seems like another contradiction. In the future, he could use the title of Earl of Dumbarton, a subsidiary of the duchy of his father, or be a prince when his grandfather Charles takes the throne.
Experts see unfounded fears for their safety, which does not always come with the title and is not granted to babies, since it is understood that they will always be guarded by their parents and their escort if they have it.
The Sussexes also gave papaya with the assertion that Carlos cut off their financial support. According to the Evening Standard, he took it upon himself to let the press know, through trusted intermediaries, that he continues to help them, although he did not deny that he stopped answering Harry's phone, as he told it. Here, the contradiction is that one of the pillars of his cry for independence was the desire to be autonomous on this front and now they cry for money.
Others do not understand that they claim so much their right to privacy, while they speak of the most intimate of their family life before the world.
The interview, seen by 22 million people, recalled Diana of Wales' confession to the BBC cameras in 1995. Reporter Melanie McDonagh claims that the Sussexes have constructed her speech based on the princess's story. Harry has said that he regrets that he was unable to protect his mother from how much she suffered in the royal family and believes that by saving his wife he will atone for that guilt.
If anything, the parallel between the two is staggering. For example, both were treated by the Windsors as strangers and, when they refused to bow their heads, they were isolated.
Although Diana was believed, Meghan not so much: she said that she did not know anything about the monarchy and that is suspicious. Elizabeth II is identified by what she is in any corner of the planet, and Harry is the son of whom she was the most famous woman on the globe.
Also, when she was in London, young lady, she took the typical photo in front of Buckingham Palace. And her friends talk about how much she admired Lady Di; so much so that he once made an exhibition about her at her school.
The face to face left serious doubts about the rare way of communicating of this family: the couple felt slighted by the queen when they returned from Canada, where they lived after announcing her retirement. They had arranged to meet her at the Sandringham residence, but were suddenly notified by the monarch's private secretary that the meeting would not take place.
So Harry called her grandmother and she told him that she would be busy the rest of the week. The explanation, according to Harry, is that in the palace those who rule are the courtiers, to whom he blames much of the blame for his problems.
As with the Lady Di interview, today the British are divided. Most believe that the Sussexes' was inappropriate. But you don't have to probe to see the damage she did. On the one hand, it damages the reputation that British royalty has treasured, despite an abdication, three marital breakups in a single year (1992) and other scandals. Now, observers believe, that mystery that has woven the magic of the throne has been definitively torn apart. And although the couple treated the sovereign affectionately, in reality she received all the blows for being the head of the Crown.
Now, the two will have to face that barely a few weeks passed between the interview and the death of Prince Felipe and if they go to the funeral or if they stay they will have to read in all the media and listen to hundreds of comments that next to this great pain faced with her grandmother for the loss of the great love of her life, she also had to deal with her grandson's taking out rags in the sun.
