Spoilt brats at home in La La Land
JWELL. Brexit is no longer alone as a toxic family battleground. Richard and I are barely speaking after Meghan and Harry (definitely in order of precedence) revealed their “truth” to their new Queen, Oprah Winfrey, below.
As you will read on this page, he found them convincing, believable, even kind. Me – I was spitting rivets. I was watching two incredibly spoilt grown-ups acting like furious children hissing poisonous bile at their well-meaning, puzzled parents.
Meghan, smarting as only a tiger mother can at what she saw as an insult that her child was deprived of his “birthright” – a title, tried to weasel her way out of her naked need for status by saying Archie could only be “safe” if he was a prince.
Tortuous thinking, as security (with which she seems obsessed) is paid for by the British public, and is therefore only affordable for those who are genuine working royals in the UK.
Similarly, Harry is cross with his dad for “cutting him off financially” forcing him to dig into a £10million inheritance from his mother. God, he sounded like Bertie Wooster moaning about a stingy aunt.
And the pique! Meghan’s digs at Kate, obviously sanctioned by Harry, showed how green with jealousy the pair of them are that the older brother and sister-in-law are higher up the pecking order. Harry’s worship of Meghan’s star performance on their Australia tour gave the game away; he thinks he and his wife are better at “the job” than William and Kate.
He thinks they’re the stars of the family, and wanted a much more exalted role than “the spare” is ever offered.
They just don’t get it, and their pique is down to their grossly inflated self-esteem.
Not once did I hear either show knowledge of what “the job” really is.To Meghan it means always being “on”, performing.
But royals are not film stars; their role is a hugely important constitutional service to the country, representing us abroad, gaining trade contracts and prosperity, and here at home symbolising unity and national pride. Meanwhile poor subjects back home without titles or inheritance are losing jobs and loved ones in this pandemic. Is Harry aware of that? No, the poor little prince is far too self-absorbed in his own millionaire misery in La La Land.
ROPHELIA Lovibond (what a fabulous name for a star of stage and screen) will play Boris’s fiancée Carrie Symonds in the upcoming TV series This Sceptred Isle, which is based on Johnson’s first year in No 10. Already critics say it will be similar to The Crown in controversially mixing fact and fiction. Sorry, but with Boris the most gloriously improbable PM we have ever had, who needs fiction?