Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quit senior royal duties THE INDEPENDENT Comment en est-on arrivé au Megxit ?

Le Prince Harry et Meghan Markle renoncent à leurs engagements royaux (duty devoir, responsabilité)

L’annonce a eu l’effet d’une bombe aux Royaume-Uni: après le Brexit, voici venue l’heure du Megxit. Début janvier, le duc et la duchesse de Sussex ont fait part de leur décision de prendre leurs distances avec la famille royale. Décryptage d’une rupture annoncée.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to “step back as ‘senior’ members of the royal family”, they have said. The couple want to become financially independent, they announced in a statement published to the Sussex Royal Instagram account. The news comes amid speculation the couple want to move to Canada.

1. to step back prendre ses distances / statement déclaration / account compte / to come, came, come ici, tomber (fig.) / amid(st) ici, dans un contexte de / speculation rumeurs. 2. In the statement, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said: ”After many months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution.

3. “We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become

2. to carve out créer (to carve sculpter).

3. to intend to avoir pour intention de / financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen. “It is with your encouragement, particularly over the last few years, that we feel prepared to make this adjustment.” They added: “We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America, conwhile tout en; aussi, tandis que / over ici, au cours de / to be prepared to être prêt à / adjustment transition, changement / to plan to projeter de / to balance ici, diviser /

The Sussexes’ move will undoubtedly be seen by some as a sign the monarchy couldn’t adapt to the 21st century.

tinuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages.

4. “This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.

5. “We look forward to sharing the full details of this exciting next step in due course, as we continue to collaborate with Her Majesty The Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and all relevant parties. Until then, please accept our deepest thanks for your continued support.”

6. The royal couple visited Vancouver for a six-week holiday over Christmas with

patronage parrainage.

4. to enable sb to permettre à qn de / to raise élever / to provide sb with sth procurer qch à qn / to focus on se concentrer sur, se consacrer à / launch lancement, création / charitable entity association caritative.

5. to look forward to (+ ger.) se réjouir de / to share partager / full ici, tous / step étape, chapitre (fig.) / in due course en temps voulu / relevant important; ici, directement concerné / parties ici, personnes / then ici, ce moment-là (annonce) / deep profond; ici, our deepest... nos... les plus sincères.

Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland. On their return from their trip they made their first public appearance since Remembrance Day by visiting the Canada House, the Canadian embassy in London’s Trafalgar Square.

7. The royals met with commission staff and Janice Charette, High Commissioner to Canada, to thank them for the warm hospitality and support they received during their stay in the country. The Sussexes have publicly struggled with media coverage of their relationship, the duchess launching a privacy action against the Mail on Sunday while Harry pursues the owners of The Sun and The Daily Mirror over alleged phone-hacking.

A DESTRUCTIVE RELATIONSHIP 8. In an interview with ITV journalist Tom Bradby in October 2019, during the Sussexes’ 10-day tour of southern Africa, Meghan said that joining the royal ranks had been a “struggle”. She said that prior to her engagement friends had warned her British tabloids would “destroy your life”, but she ignored them. “I had no idea which probably sounds difficult to understand here,” she said.

9. She continued: “It’s not just enough to survive something, you’ve got to thrive. I

6. Remembrance Day Jour du Souvenir, journée de commémoration annuelle en mémoire des sacrifices de la Première Guerre mondiale et des autres guerres / embassy ambassade.

7. warm chaleureux / stay séjour / to struggle with avoir du mal avec, souffrir de, mal vivre / media coverage couverture médiatique /to launch an action against engager des poursuites contre / privacy ici, pour atteinte à la vie privée / to pursue ici, poursuivre en justice / owner propriétaire, détenteur / over ici, au sujet de / alleged présumé, supposé, prétendu.

8. to join the royal ranks intégrer la famille royale / prior to avant / engagement fiançailles / to sound sembler.

9. enough suffisant / to thrive, thrived or throve, thrived or thriven s’épanouir / really tried to adopt this British sensibility of a stiff upper lip, but I think that what that does internally is probably really damaging. “The biggest thing that I know, I never thought this would be easy, but I thought it would be fair. And that’s the part that’s really hard to reconcile.”

A PAINFUL DECISION 10. In response to being asked if she was okay, the duchess said: “And, also thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I’m OK. But it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.” Prince Harry said, in the same interview: “I will always protect my family. And now I have a family to protect.”

11. Speaking to The Independent, author and royal commentator Claudia Joseph said: “In some ways it’s surprising but in other ways I think it was always on the cards. Meghan lived in Toronto before her marriage and they have just had a wonderful break in the country.

12. “I think social media is to blame. If you read the comments about Meghan on Twitter, you can see why she would want to escape.” Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said he believed the Sussexes’ move “will undoubtedly be seen by some as a sign the monarchy couldn’t adapt to the 21st century”. O sensibility tendance / a stiff upper lip le flegme britannique / damaging destructeur / part ici, aspect / to reconcile ici, accepter.

10. in response to en réaction à / to go, went, gone through traverser, endurer, subir / behind the scenes en coulisses; ici, en privé.

11. in some ways.../in other ways... d'un côté.../d'un autre côté... / to be on the cards être prévisible.

12. to blame tenir pour responsable / comment commentaire, réaction, critique / to see, saw, seen ici, comprendre; aussi, percevoir / to escape fuir, prendre ses distances / move déménagement, départ; aussi, décision / undoubtedly sans aucun doute / century siècle.