Harry and Meghan back in the spotlight

MANY of yesterday’s opinion writers focused on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The Daily Express

“I am a staunch royalist, whatever that means – the royal family are what makes this country different, but modernisation is needed,” wrote James Whale.

“The way they had to cut Harry off proved that their advisers are useless. Harry is not going to be king and Meghan is not going to be queen, but they can do a lot of good in promoting this country. Why so much hatred is directed against them I will never know.

“My suggestion is to leave them alone. And Your Majesty, if I may be so bold, I ask you to reinstate Harry and his military connections.

“He is a man who has risked his life for this country by his military service.

“Not many of his detractors would have the guts to do that.

Please give him back the one thing I think he misses.”

The Daily Telegraph

According to Nick Timothy, Harry and Meghan embody the woke generation.

“Rejecting a life of royal service, Harry and Meghan felt able to taunt the Queen, declaring, ‘service is universal’,” he wrote. “But the service they provide, if that is what you can call it, is based on their fame, and their fame is derived from the royal family. Relentlessly, they are now using that same fame to earn many millions of dollars.

“Such hypocrisy is part and parcel of the class they have joined.”

The Scotsman

Shifting their gaze away from the Harry and Meghan saga, the paper’s editors offered a warning on the issue of equality.

“One of the many tragedies of the coronavirus pandemic has been the widening of existing inequality,” its leader comment said.

“On International Women’s

Day today it is only right that a spotlight is shone on how lockdown has exacerbated gender imbalances.”