Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Is Prince Harry really happy to be loafing in La La Land?

Under normal circumstances, the fact that today is the first day of Harry and Meghan's new life as 'ordinary' citizens would have dominated the news.

But most people have more pressing matters on their minds.

Against a background of economic meltdown and the life-and-death battle against this damned virus, the plight of Harry and Meghan pales into insignificance.

What do the concerns, real or imagined, of this pampered pair matter in a world where thousands are dying every day? Where an unseen enemy is keeping friends apart, and tearing families to shreds?

Ordinary people are having to endure the unimaginable; yet this is a couple who barely gave their relationship with the British public 18 months before chucking in the towel.
 


No wonder, as the royal biographer Penny Junor put it, they now seem 'pretty irrelevant'. For months, other members of the Royal Family, not to mention friends, advisers and those of us in the Press reckless enough to incur the wrath of the pro-Meghan trolls, have been urging them to get some perspective.

Now events have done that for them and their decision to abandon Britain in favour of life in LA has been exposed for what it is: ill-judged, premature — and, in many ways, rather sad.

Because, make no mistake, Harry and Meghan could have had it all. Correction: they did have it all; the fancy wedding, the lavish lifestyle, the adoration of the British public — and, of course, the status that comes with being an HRH.




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