Two words prove Harry, Meghan doesn’t understand

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While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s careers are well and truly off the rails, it’s clear they’re still succumbing to a very bad habit.

Ultimately, the monarchy is an institution fundamentally based on luck.

The luck that Alfred the Great managed to repel the Viking invaders, the luck that George I became king when he was 52nd in line to the throne (he was the closest Protestant, according to the rules) and the “luck “that in the 20th century, Edward VIII longed to rusticate in France with the icicle clad in Wallis Simpson couture rather than have to open the Norfolk Show.

Now his great-grandnephew would blame that very thing – luck, or lack thereof – for making him and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex’s careers look like a burst blush.

It’s misfortune and bad timing, supposedly, that are entirely responsible for why the pair aren’t celebrated by Hollywood as the most exciting talent to arrive since Scorsese got his first Super8.

A quick recap.

Harry and Meghan apparently think their problems boil down to being repeatedly unlucky. Photo: Matt Dunham/Pool/AFP

First, the Sussexes and Spotify parted ways in a humiliating turn of events for the couple, who promised they would do “programming that uplifts and entertains audiences”.

Instead, Meghan tried to save feminism by making air in the shape of a word near women with much more successful careers than hers, and Harry tried to make the two biggest threats to world peace talk about not being hugged enough when they were kids.

The next blow to his career came when reports suggested that Netflix is ​​unlikely to renew his contract in two short years, meaning they could lose up to $76 million in unpaid fees. (Nothing like knowing you’re going to get dumped beforehand).

Then the Duke and Duchess, still relatively fresh transplants in California, were deemed “flops” by none less than the venerable Wall Street Journal.

Then, to top it off, they were tagged “f**king grifters” by Spotify’s Bill Simmons before Hollywood bigwig Jeremy Zimmer said at the Cannes Lions festival: “Turns out Meghan Markle wasn’t great audio talent or necessarily any type of talent. You know, just because you’re famous doesn’t mean you’re good at something.”

It is at this point that most people would retreat to the comfort and privacy of their boutique hotel-sized estate to do some self-reflection, for example, in their yoga room or their Japanese-style teahouse.

With their eyes closed, their favorite whale birthing track playing, the air scented with organic ylang-ylang, you might expect two adults who are self-actualizing and creating the space for being their authentic and caring selves should be prepared to face hard truths. Learn. To grow. And then keep a tedious diary about it until it’s time for their next colic.

On the contrary.

The Duke and Duchess have been called flops by The Wall Street Journal. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation

They have also been labeled f**king grifters by Spotifys Bill Simmons. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

According to the Daily Mail, the Sussexes take no responsibility for the deterioration of their corporate marriages or take on that uncomfortable thing, responsibility – ironically one of the very things they continue to demand of the family royal.

Instead, they blame bad luck.

Columnist Alison Boshoff reported that the Sussexes ‘are convinced their downfall had nothing to do with them’ and was told they ‘both feel they’ve been’ repeatedly unlucky “with other world events”.

“Repeatedly unlucky,” such as Prince Philip’s declining health in 2021, which Boshoff says the couple felt “overshadowed” during their Oprah interview. So…why go all the way, given that it was clear that the normally brave Duke of Edinburgh was unlikely to make it this time?

“Repeatedly unlucky,” as, as Boshoff writes, “attempts to get started as a do-

the good ones, [which] have been hit hard by the pandemic.” Except that, years later, they haven’t embarked on a single solitary humanitarian trip abroad.

‘Repeatedly unlucky’, such as the death of the late Queen last year, which they say ‘affected’ the ‘launch of Meghan’s podcast’.

What is this? Three weeks of episodes had already been released when the late Her Majesty sadly left us?

And “repeatedly unlucky”, like the streaming industry which has suffered a huge stock market hit over the past 18 months. The sticking point here – as Boshoff reports – “Those in the know say it’s the lack of content, not podcast listening numbers, that’s been the real disappointment for Spotify.”

The couple believe they have repeatedly been unlucky with other world events, such as the deaths of the Queen and Prince Philip. Photo: Tim Graham/Getty Images Daniel Leal/AFP

Damn your fate (shake heaven first) for thwarting such talents.

What’s so remarkable here is that, if what Boshoff reports is correct, Harry and Meghan still can’t come to terms with their guilt for their own lives and turns. When will they really metabolize and accept the fact that they are not totally blameless in the various disorders that seem to follow them?

When the Duke was busy selling his telltale spare like a Tupperware salesman with a quota to meet, he told ITV’s Tom Bradby that he ‘kept… asking… what we got wrong, so that we can fix it and apologize for those things. But each time I asked the question, I received no response.

How can an adult with all his critical faculties be such a dingbat?

Perhaps the Palace has been too busy trying to shut its gaping mouth to ‘respond’ as it tries to wrap its head around someone complaining that it violated its privacy – then write a story about his family that conveys their private lives – and to put out a six-hour TV series that includes photos taken inside royal properties such as Buckingham Palace, apparently without royal permission.

Harry has spoken many times, to his credit, about having therapy, but what I find odd is that therapy is not an expensive way to distribute blame while lying on a sofa, but a process that requires looking at yourself honestly and honestly. .

So how do the Duke and Duchess, at least according to the Mail’s account, still not get it?

How can they, two highly educated adults, still see the world through such a binary light with no space for nuance, complexity or gray areas? How can they still see their situation in such a reductive and childish way? Where the only thing that has hindered their ability to wow Hollywood is circumstance; where they were only abused by selfish HRHs who fled to the ink-stained gorgons of Fleet Street and did not appreciate the gift that was Sir and Lady Hug-a-Lot?

Integrated charging…

The twist here is that Harry and Meghan, by relentlessly portraying themselves as martyrs, have actually only hurt themselves in the end.

Imagine if, in their Netflix ‘documentary’, they had admitted to some mistakes – for example, if they had said ‘maybe we shouldn’t have taken four private jet flights in 11 days if we want to be hailed as heroes of the climate crisis”. movement. Our evil”.

It would have made them much more convincing and trustworthy storytellers.

For years, Megxit has been relentlessly read through an overly simplistic lens: villains or victims; good or bad.

There has always been the idea of ​​choosing a side that is miraculously absolved of all blame, while the other side is nothing but awful, selfish, and evil.

As if.

No one is completely right in the same way that no one is completely wrong.

There is at least a book or a doctoral thesis in all this. The title: 50 shades of men in gray.

Daniela Elser is a royal pundit and freelance writer with 15 years of experience who has written for some of Australia’s top print and digital media brands.

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