Ill health and tragedy can cause rifts in any family.
There’s an aura on awkwardness about the reports that Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has travelled to Balmoral to be at the side of the ailing Queen Elizabeth. Earlier reports said his wife, Meghan, was travelling with him. That plan has been abandoned, which is probably a smart move.
Although H&M claim the “truth bombs” they’ve constantly lobbed at the Royal Family from their California home are not aimed at Her Majesty, the result has been the exact opposite. They have caused her immense pain. They have hurt the institution she holds most dear – the Monarchy and all it represents.
They had previously turned down an invitation to visit the Queen in her beloved Highland retreat this summer. It will be difficult for many in the family to now view Harry as a dutiful grandson.
He has a book coming out, supposedly this fall, and there are more fears about what revelations will be included in it.
Harry once seemed her favourite grandson. She helped him publicize his Invictus Games with a funny “mic drop” video tease with then U.S. President Barack Obama. Then things turned sour. Since his marriage, he has turned on the family and caused them all immense pain.
The Queen – in fact the whole Royal Family – appeared to roll out the red carpet for the Sussexes. Their lavish wedding was the high point of the royal calendar.
Then in early 2020 “Megxit” happened. The Sussexes fled with their son, Archie, first to Canada and then to the U.S. Observers say it was done in a needlessly cruel fashion by the Sussexes and the shocking Oprah interview – much of which has been discredited – was deeply wounding to the Queen.
Inexplicably, for a couple who live in a multi-million dollar mansion and who were wed in an ancient castle, they just kept throwing the slings and arrows.
Meghan, who is alienated from her own family and whose father has been highly critical of her for the way she and Harry have treated the Queen, constantly gives interviews with American media in which she laments the way she was treated by the royals. And yet in an act that baffled many and shocked others, they appropriated the name “Lilibet” for their daughter. It’s a very personal childhood name for the Queen, who couldn’t pronounce “Elizabeth.” As a child, her parents, George VI and Elizabeth, called her Lilibet. It was seen as an insult to the Queen. If H&M had wanted to pay tribute to her, then they should have used her full name.
There are also fears that the Sussexes have Netflix contract to fulfil and the Royals have to be constantly on guard. They do not want their intimate moments to be recorded or photographed so they can be used for commercial purposes by the Sussexes.
Where will Harry stay in the Highlands? Will the Queen want him at her bedside? And will H&M ever stop whining?
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