![]() She was portrayed as a dreadful controlling woman, a difficult person, the daughter in law from hell, the evil bahu who forces her husband to move out of the family home and takes him away from his family. The role of the villain in all this was of course given to Meghan Markle. There was a degree of public and press outrage that the Queen had not been informed of the announcement and had not signed off on it and that by doing this Harry had somehow betrayed both his family and his country. What was the fuss all about? Most of it was based on the fact that the Queen and her heir (Harry’s dad, Prince Charles) had not signed off on the matter and the announcement had caught the palace by surprise. The tabloids, particularly the Daily Mail and people like Piers Morgan went berserk (the latter writing a column depicting Meghan as a scheming social climber who had stolen Harry away from his family), and The Daily Telegraph ran a huge banner headline saying “A Royal Crisis” with four different columnists writing on different aspects of this ‘crisis’. ![]() ![]() There was rather a lot of news hysteria in Britain (and the rest of the world) after this announcement by Prince Harry (Duke of Sussex) and his wife, the American actress Meghan Markle. In the week in which a commercial flight was shot down by Iran in Iranian airspace, and when talk of a third World War being imminent was common, the same week in which three years of political paralysis ended as the parliament of Northern Ireland went back to work and power sharing was resumed, the same week in which the British ambassador to Tehran was arrested (briefly), the week in which a female broadcaster won a landmark equal pay claim against the BBC, the news headlines were dominated by news that the Queen’s grandson and his wife had decided to step back from royal duties and try to be “financially independent”. From media coverage last week you would think that Britain had been plunged into some truly terrible crisis.
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