While Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their son Archie begin their new life in Canada away from the agenda and the English royal family, the British press continues to be primed on them, mainly on the exactrix, which they blame for the break.
But what is behind these criticisms? Some see even racism, given its mulatto status.
When, just over a hundred years ago, the Windors were still Saxony-Coburg-Gotha - that is, Teutons without a drop of English blood - their German cousins bombed London. The Gotha planes that killed the children in the schools bore the same name as the British royal house and King George V - grandfather of Isabel II - was sorry that in the frenzy of hatred of the Germans his own subjects kicked him out. Or something worse.
Lord Stanfordham, his private secretary, proposed to re-found the dynasty with the name of Windsor and the reigning house erased its roots, reinvented itself more British than fog and fish and chips, and the Windors learned the dark art of survival that , according to some tabloids, they have put Harry and Meghan in check with a fright that, if he listened to the most alarmist, could grind the state machinery, finely calibrated to fit the ancestral monarchy into a parliamentary democracy.
On January 8, the Crown notebooks creaked when the Dukes of Sussex announced their self-exclusion from the club of the senior royals to live their lives without the yoke that keeps them attached to Buckingham's easement and oropeles car. The Brexit was overshadowed by the Megxit , a malicious coinage from The Sun newspaper to suggest that all of Meghan's fault.
Although in their statement on Instagram the dukes made it clear that it was a decision to pachas, every one who speaks of the Megxit, when the exact thing would be to say Sussexit.
As in the United Kingdom when there is no silence there is scandal, the media coverage, which has treated the matter as if it were a constitutional crisis, forced Isabel II to react and in 72 hours summoned the hard core of the family, and their respective secretaries in the Long Library of his house in Sandringham.
In a statement with few precedents, the grandmother's affection was combined with the severity of the head of state to wish good wind to the deserters while still reading the primer. Less diplomatic was the real source who said the Queen was "desolate" and added: "They have won, haven't they? They wanted to have their cake and eat it. They already have it".
Well, not quite. Following the guidelines of the English philosopher John Austin, the resignation of the dukes would be an "unfortunate performative" statement; that is, they intended to do something, but it did not go well at all. They wanted a soft resignation and have earned a hard expulsion. They wanted to live on horseback between Canada (where she was happily shooting Suits for years) and the United Kingdom, stop participating in the Royal Rota - the agenda of acts of the Crown - and instead give up the Sovereign Grant, which is 5% of your income.
But not to mention ceasing to be Royal Highnesses and other prerogatives. Wow, they wanted the cabbage bud without the leaves around; but the yaya Isabel, who, against what it might seem, is very porous to public opinion, has cut for the sake, has closed in band to intermediate workers and has left them without their real titles and without public assignment .
They will continue to be the Dukes of Sussex, but they will no longer be representatives of the Monarchy and will no longer be able to head their names with the acronym HRH (His or Her Royal Highness, His Royal Highness).
In addition, they will have to return to the public treasury the three million euros invested in the renovation of their Frogmore Cottage residence, for which they must pay rent.
It is understood that the queen will bounce her own, but the Sussexit was seen coming because the one who warns is not a traitor (exact, he is an adviser) and shortly after his wedding the dukes began to send signals of distance from the Buckingham protocols with details that in the palace acquire the category of offense.
The thing had been cooking since, in March of last year, the Sussex left the residence of Nottingham Cottage, on the grounds of the Kensington Palace that they shared with the Dukes of Cambridge, to put land in between by installing between the croaking of the Frogs on the 14 hectares of the Frogmore estate in Windsor.
In June they left the Royal Foundation, which they also shared with William and Kate, and announced the creation of a new one (which was registered only a few weeks before their expedited bye bye, grandma).
In September, Meghan confessed in an interview that when she got engaged to Harry, her American friends were happy with her, but the British were scared by her: “Okay, great; but give it a spin because the tabloids will destroy your life ».
Of course, they have tried. The Daily Mail, for example, related its taste for avocados to "the violation of human rights, drought and murder." But it was not just the tabloids, the BBC has compared the couple's son, Archie, with a chimpanzee. When their patience ran out and their misfortunes formed critical mass, they tried to circumvent the prediction of American friends with a plan B that matured on a long Christmas holiday in Canada. On the way back, they dropped the bomb.
Schopenhauer comes to tell us that the only alternative to suffering is resignation; that equation is worth it for some, but not for the Sussex, fed up not only with the skinning of the press of prey, but also with the bad vibes with William and Kate, with whom they stopped making pineapple when they realized that the Cambridge were they gave the petals and to them the thorns. Kate and Meghan never got to congeniar, among other things because under the focus of the media the valuation of the first used to be detrimental to the second, which poisoned the coexistence of the 'Fab Four' (the Fabulous Four).
Each of the brothers supported his wife and a crack opened between them. Harry himself confirmed it in a documentary recorded in South Africa by the American network ABC : «We are brothers. We will always be brothers. But right now we are going through different paths ». Even a newspaper as institutional as The Times delved into fraternal disagreements attributed to solvent sources that William always "wanted to put in place" to the Sussex.
In that cold war, the contestants have found unequal support among the columnists, divided into two sides: nothing unites the English as war; Nothing divides them like the royals. Mulatto, divorced, foreigner and actress, Meghan had all the numbers so that the most rancid side lashed out at the couple of "spoiled children" and took care of her caricaturing her as frivolous, climbing and plebeian.
His main enemy, the bigmouth Piers Morgan, has put this puja on Twitter: «He abandoned his family, abandoned his father, abandoned most of his old friends, managed to antagonize Harry and William and has now separated his husband of the royal family. I have nothing more to add". But he did have something else to add, this poisonous advice to Isabel II: "The queen must SIDE these royal scammers: she should strip them of their titles before this pair of intriguing and selfish Kardashian aspirants tear down the Monarchy." 'Ok, boomer.'
From the trenches of the other side, the leftist media have denounced a racist and classist tufo in a 'establishment' not very similar to the social, environmental or feminist causes defended by Meghan.
Anthony Burgess already said that without its marked class differences, England would cease to be the living theater it is. In an article published on January 9 in the New York Times, the expert on race, identity and belonging Afua Hirsch explained the Sussex decision in reaction to the vestiges of the white supremacism that built the British Empire and that have led to the treatment racist that the Californian has had in a society that does not accept the declassification of non-whites.
"The relatively few people of color who achieve prosperity in Britain are often told that they should be grateful, and if not, leave," writes Hirsch.
Eight years ago, in an interview with The Guardian, Paul McCartney revealed that the Beatles were already dissolving when Yoko Ono appeared in Lennon's life; However, the gossip that it was she who charged the Beatles is the cross with which poor Yoko has had to carry her whole life. The same sexist reflection will haunt Meghan like a curse . It is almost certain that misogyny is behind some insults such as that of the ultra-right-wing group Leave.Eu, who published a montage of the Duchess riding in dominatrix mode over a submissive Harry. The insult was labeled 'Pussy-whipped', which is how you say calzonazos in 'slang'.
In The English Constitution (1867), the political scientist Walter Bagehot (the followers of 'The Crown' know who I'm talking about) postulates that the monarchy should be displayed as a circus, but hidden as a mystery: something like an ostentatious crystal cage full of fog. In other words, while the pomp of royalty must be very visible, its internal functioning must remain dormant. If for so long the 'royals' have had their way in financial stealth it has been because, for the most part, people did not want to know: the attractiveness of the Crown is inherent in their mysticism and knowing its cost would be to reduce it.
But things have changed a lot in this matter and now the Law of the Royalty of Godwin governs, which establishes that the more a debate about the monarchy is extended, the more inevitable it is that someone brings out its cost. The old people contest the couple's decision; the Z generation supports it; but everyone celebrates that they stop living the story and account of the treasury. Dorothy Parker has already said that the two most important words in English are 'bank check'. That is why the queen has cut off their supply. In order for the dynasty to survive and not become a suicide institution, the Windors have developed an instinct to prevent themselves.
Not only will the Crown survive the resignation, but the dukes will get ahead; for the moment, with the five million pounds that daddy Charles will spend annually on his income from the Duchy of Cornwall.
Although it is not clear if Meghan will return to the screens, she has signed an agreement with Disney for a voiceover job.
No, reaching the end of the month will not be a problem because they have registered the Sussex Royal brand, which promises to protect a multi-million dollar emporium for commercial exploitation of a hundred products. In addition, as it did with the Obama, Netflix would offer the Sussex a platform of 160 million paid subscribers to produce certain types of programs.
If, as in the case of Harry, being a replacement heir to the Windsor can ruin your life, stop being it is already like going out on foot to Canada, which is like the United States without Disneyland: if you can be happy in Canada, you can Be it anywhere. In the end, this whole story is the story of a beautiful commoner who rescues a spare prince chained in a crystal palace.
Hopefully, the journalist Rivkah Brown, who wrote in The Independent: «The only difference between the UK's withdrawal from the EU and the Sussex's decision to withdraw from royalty is that, at least, Harry and Meghan seem to know what They are doing".
In these one hundred long years, the Windsor have prospered while their relatives from other great dynasties fell. They have seen how their relatives were overthrown, killed and exiled. They have overcome family disputes, calamities and betrayals. And they have never forgotten this commandment: to survive at all costs and at any cost.
They survived the scandalous abdication, in 1936, of Edward VIII and his dangerous barrage with the Nazis, the Republican cabinets, the rebellion of Princess Margarita, the divorces of three children of Isabel II, the funerals in 'loor' of sanctity of Lady Di, to the irreverent barrage of the tabloids, to the puppets of Spitting Image and to the punk zafiedad of the series The Windsors.
The Megxit ?, that's nothing.
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