What didn’t go well? strongly blamed the brothers themselves

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Harry & William’s First Moments: What went wrong? (ITV) carried the promise of a Philomena Cunk-style mock documentary. If this had taken place in the 15th century, intoned the royal editor of Vanity Fair, with a completely impassive face, one of those brothers would have already died.

Maybe we could bring that logic to all royal documentaries. Would James Hewitt have lasted long at the court of Henry VIII? Don’t think so! Could Fergies’ spending habits have declined in revolutionary France? We shudder at the thought. And let’s not get into the 14th century and this hot poker business.

Unfortunately, the program did not turn out that way. It was an otherwise perfectly sensible examination of the severing of relations between Princes William and Harry, a matter of legitimate public interest given that one of them is our future King.

There have been so many complaints and counterclaims regarding The Fab Four’s disbandment, but here the sequence of events has been presented quite evenly. Meghan’s arrival certainly turned out to be the catalyst – and the Palace’s intimidation allegations against her (which she and Harry denied) were Megxit’s tipping point – but the experts here agreed that the root of the problem was with the brothers themselves.

According to Penny Junor, royal biographer, it can be summed up as follows: Harry is brash. William is thinking. Although the idea of ​​William staying above media sniping was later undermined in the program when it was suggested that the bullying allegations against Meghan had been leaked to a newspaper by Buckingham Palace, with the approval from above.

Our own Camilla Tominey provided a balanced view: Palace staff found Meghan and Harry demanding and difficult to work with, but the royal couple felt they were not being listened to, and the palace’s pace was slower than that that Meghan had been used to (she was a woman who had run her own business for years before getting married in The Firm).

The contributors were on more volatile ground when discussing the allegations of racism. Celebrity branding expert Jeetendr Sehdev claimed rather hysterically that the media coverage fueled the idea that there was this evil black actress who had cast a spell on the good white prince. Penny Junor said: I am white so I cannot answer the question correctly whether the institution is racist but from what I have seen it is absolutely not, a statement which does not exactly overflow with authority.

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