Critics Turn on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as Questions of Relevance Grow

0:00 Ah calorogus shark media all and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I am your host, Mark Francis. In The Times, Polly Vernon asks what's worse than the whole world hating you? Why the whole world not being bothered about you? One way or the other. Of course, no one wants to be irrelevant, but I suspect a few people want it less than Harry, Duke of Sussex Years after all, the man who called his twenty twenty three autobiography spare because that awful feeling of being at best a backup plan for the royal establishment, therefore not especially important in your own right, has haunted him for the whole of his life.

0:42 Yet it would seem that not mattering very much in the end might be Harry's destiny. I feel more pity for him writing those words than I ever have before, give or take the time I watched him, heartbreakingly young and heartbreakingly pale, walk behind his mother's coffin. Obviously, but year a slip slide into inc significance might very well be Harry's fate. His fate and that of his wife Megan. Most recently, Harry's protests that he will always be part of the royal family, and that to the argument he is no longer a working royal, he is, in fact working and doing the very thing I was born to do, which loosely translates as a matter royal blood still runs through my veins. I exist. To be fair to Harry.

1:23 He was in Ukraine at the time of those latest comments, visiting alongside the Halo Trust, the landmine clearing organization whose profile Princess Diana transformed in her nineteen ninety seven trip to Angola. The clearing of land mines is a desperately important cause, and Ukraine, a country whose ongoing plight is constantly pushed out of the headlines by other evolving and unceasingly dramatic international situations, could absolutely do with the spotlight again. In all those respects, Harry did the right thing. But if only he hadn't made it about him, if only he'd just done it, Although maybe not making it all about you was a lot to ask from someone who is discovered therapy, privilege, mental health, victimhood and so forth, all at once, rather quickly and rather recently, found himself initially rewarded for it. Some factions of the public hasn't yet noticed that times and sensibilities have changed. It all now plays like irritating introspection and repetitive self pity, ensuring even those who once supported him in it now June out, drift off, turn the page, scroll down the feed. In the Telegraph, Celia Warden writes, another day, another chance to remind the world just how much hardship you've endured if you're a megan. Although when I glimpsed the headline on Sunday Duchess hints at the hardest seven years of her life, I genuinely had to check they hadn't picked up an old paper by a mistake. The Duchess of Sussex, who was a Leo, felt duty bound to share two astrological Instagram stories. The first depicted two men dancing to Selene Dion's hit That's the Way It Is, with the caption Taurus, Leo,

2:55 Scorpio and Aquarius ending the hardest seven years of their lives on April twenty fifth, and the second insisted that from the very same date the pressure lifts, you get the space to just exist without fighting for it. Now, reading between the lines, it has a guess that this is about Meghan herself and the hardship she's endured, but he is the good news. If the hardship ended on Saturday, that presumably means that she can finally stop complaining about how ghastly her life as a royal was. But don't you dare try and take away her title. How terrible the PTSD has been. After all, the strings on that violin must be almost worn through at this point. If there is a statue of limitations and winging, we've surely reached it. Also, and at the risk of stating the obvious, Meghan's current life looks pretty damn good to most people right now. She and her husband are still very much in love and have a combined and net worth of approximately forty five million pounds. They have two beautiful children and a nine bedroom estate in an exclusive enclave of Montecito where it's sunny most days a year. There, Meghan can continue to live out one ambition after another, whether it's pre tending to be Martha Stewart flogging jam or plotting trips to Australia to deliver speeches at young women at fourteen hundred pounded ticket retreats called things like her best life and she never ever has to set foot in another musty smelling British church for as long as she lives. Sounds peachy to me, and I'm convinced she would instantly be ninety nine percent more appealing to people if she dropped the winging. So how about that happy rebrand, Meghan.

4:24 Even the astrologists think it's a good idea. Astrologers don't agree with Meghan's reading of the stars. Astrologer inner Bal Honeyman tells Hello that while Meghan's star sign Leo may have experienced disruption, it was not uniquely affected. She said Leo's had faced intense and unexpected changes due to Uranus and taurusts, but added that other science were more heavily impacted. Honingman explained Taurists have had the roughest because this planet was directly in their sign, ushering unwelcome surprises, and added Aquarius have had a tough time too because Uranus is their ruling planet. Scorpio and Leo have certainly felt the rough edge, but not as acutely. Looking ahead, she suggested a more positive period could be on the horizon, saying in the middle of twenty twenty six, Jupiter, planet of luck will go into Meghan's star sign Leo, meaning that Meghan and other Leos will enjoy a lot of good fortune.

5:20 In the Express, Hanisha Sathi writes, I do have a huge amount of sympathy for Megan Markel's online abuse can't be easy to phase damaging a critical comment on a daily basis. However, her pr should warn her that her hyperbolic statements won't do her any favors. Either difficult or traumatic periods in a person's life donet simply lose relevance because they are no longer recent. For Megan, her time within the Royal Institution represented a profound life transition that she clearly wasn't ready for. On the other hand, critics argue that repeatedly revisiting these grievances risks appearing counterproductive. Since stepping back from royal duties, Meghan and Harry have built new lives, careers, and platforms. Some feel that continued focus on past conflicts undermines their stated desire for privacy and independence.

6:07 A balanced view, however, might acknowledge both truths that, yes, Megan's experience are hers to share, but the public reaction will inevitably be shaped by when and how often those experiences are revisited. More pounds it just a moment. An interesting anecdote appeared in the Sun during the King's visit to the United States. Arthur Edwards shared that the King once told him, if a bullet has my name on it, so be it. Edward writes, he is very unruffled about these things, and I never for one moment doubted that King Charles and Queen Camella would be getting on that plane. He just feels duty is the most important thing, which he learned from his mother. I remember in nineteen ninety four I was in Sydney, Australia, when David King ran from the crowd with a cat pistol and I was just walking off. I heard the two shots ring out and heard people screaming. I ran around the front to see a pile of bodies on the stage, thinking it was the Prince. When I tried to climb onto the stage, a policeman physically threw me off and I look around and there's Prince Charles adjusting his cuffs. Calm as can be totally unfazed by it all, and it was quite amazing.

7:13 If there was an hysterical person. That was me. He was as calm as a cucumber. He's very philosophical about these things. He's never going to stop doing his walkabouts. He's never going to stop having people into the palace. If it's unsafe to go somewhere, he'll certainly take the advice of his protection team. If they say it's very unsafe to go there, so we won't go there, he will listen to them. But at the same time he will not be put off doing what he feels his duty is to be king for everybody, not just somebody, but the whole nation, and he's doing a brilliant job so far. King Charles and Donald Trump are reportedly distantly related, according to newly highlighted genealogical research. The connection traces back to a shared ancestor, a Scottish nobleman known as the third Earl of Lennox. Royal Author Robert Hartman said the two men shared descent from the same Scottish noblemen, making them distant cousins. He explained, we know that the avowedly royalist President Trump already regards the King as a great guy and a fighter, but his affection for the monarch and the royal family may now become even more pronounced when he learns that he and the King shared descent from the same Scottish nobleman. The research suggests that link runs through multiple generations of Scottish nobility, eventually connecting to Trump's maternal lineage through his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who emigrated to the United States in the early twentieth century.

8:32 Hardman noted that the shared ancestry would make the King and President approximately fifteenth cousins. There you have it if you like to email us addresses the Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com. I'm Francis by thanks to John McDermott. This is Palace Intrigue and good time.