They want to be free to go their own way
THE argument goes that Harry and Meghan want it both ways.
That they don’t want to return to their roles as working royals but they do want to continue supporting charities in their own way, quite simply they want a life.
Actually, it means they care. They don’t need the patronages to prove their empathy with ordinary people. They want to be free to do things their way.
We adults still don’t get it - this current generation is rooting for Meghan and Harry. As the metaphorical battle lines take shape you have the older heads on one side, ensconced in the archaic idea of duty – another word for control.
They are the critics who see being a royal as turning up when Buckingham Palace demands it, with your wife keeping schtum.
On the other side are your kids, your grandkids. Generation Z who see the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as being completely on their wavelength. The youngsters who see the double standards in the way that Meghan is vilified compared to Prince William’s wife Kate and Edward’s wife Sophie.
Meghan and Harry’s supporters are the millennials with whom the pair are likely to jump on to a Zoom at a moment’s notice without having to clear it. Meghan and Harry’s critics foam at the mouth because they can’t cope with the fact that for all the opprobrium heaped their way, they are winning. They have found kindred spirits in the US like Oprah Winfrey, LeBron James and the other powerful, global icons able to amplify the light shone on dirty secrets like institutional racism.
Instead of bothering them, Meghan and Harry’s critics should accept defeat and embrace them. They are the best thing to happen to the Royal Family for years.