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Quite simply, they want a life.
The argument goes that Harry and Meghan want it both ways in 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.
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. Good on them.
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 which is simply another word for control.
They are the critics who see being a Royal as turning up when the Buckingham Palace roster 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 Prince Edwards’s wife Sophie.
Meghan and Harry’s supporters are the millennials with whom the pair are likely to jump onto a Zoom with at a moment’s notice without having to clear it with the Palace or having someone like Nicholas Witchell pontificate on how they feel.
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 little secrets like institutional racism.
They have negotiated that big money deal with Netflix in a stunning riposte to all those who thought they’d flounder after choosing to strike out on their own.
Instead of othering them, Meghan and Harry’s critics should embrace them. They are the best thing to happen to the Royal Family for years.
Sometimes you just have to know when to accept defeat.
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