While the planet seemed on the brink of World War 3, the British royal family — consisting of perhaps the most expensive multi-generation welfare recipients ever — was making “bombshell” headlines, too. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made a big announcement.
The artists also known as Prince Harry and his wife, U.S. actress Meghan Markle, revealed on Instagram that they were stepping back from their senior positions in the royal family to take on a “progressive role” that involves financial independence and dual residences in the U.K. and North America.
They also plan to launch a “charitable entity.” It remains to be seen if that will become merely a money-laundering operation like the Clinton Foundation.
Parenthetically, the British taxpayer recently footed an huge bill to renovate their mansion in the U.K.
The Heir and the Spare
Quipsters once referred to Harry as “the spare,” because Prince William is next in line to the throne after Prince Charles, who presumably will take over for Queen Elizabeth at some point.
The couple, which is already worth millions, made this proclamation after more than a month of vacation in Canada and without any notice to the royal family.
Markle promptly flew back to Canada where their son Archie is.
Financial independence sounds like they want to leverage their royal status into making big bucks without actually doing any real work.
Harry and the royal family have a scheduled sit-down on Monday, January 12, in which the parameters of he and his wife’s transition may be clarified. According to the New York Post, “Monday’s royal Megxit meeting will cover everything from Harry and Meghan‘s royal titles, security and any money-making deals they may have on the table.The ‘Sandringham Summit,’ as it’s being called, will be the first in-person meeting of Prince Harry, Prince William, Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth, and will include Meghan Markle calling in from Canada.”
Even as potentially ex-royals, the already wealthy Harry and Meghan will have people waiting on them hand and foot. Don’t expect them to be pushing a shopping cart at the local supermarket or personally dealing with two-factor authentication while paying an online bill.
‘Duty-Free’ Celebrities
The royal family’s full schedule of ceremonial duties probably becomes tedious, but there a lot of perks.
It seems the Sussexes, who fly around the world to virtue-signal about global warming, however, prefer to be fawned over on the Hollywood red carpet rather at Buckingham Palace.
Markle’s apologists have played the race victim cards, but as they say in the U.K., that’s rubbish.
Meghan Markle is even being compared to Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s wife who supposedly broke up the Beatles. Others are drawing parallels with American Wallis Simpson who convinced Edward VIII to step down as King. If the couple ever separates, the international custody battle could be legally complicated and pretty nasty.
Allowing his wife to manipulate him, Prince Harry, Princess Diana’s son, appears not be strong-minded person, despite his impressive military service. Markle is estranged from her family, and now Harry is from his. That’s a technique a cult often uses. Is Meghan Markle a cult leader with one follower?
The New Kardashians?
Writing in the Daily Mail, Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan, the past Celebrity Apprentice winner and failed CNN replacement for Larry King, isn’t having it.
I’ve seen some disgraceful royal antics in my time, but for pure arrogance, entitlement, greed, and willful disrespect, nothing has ever quite matched the behavior of the ‘Duke and Duchess of Sussex.’
…Indeed, if I were Her Majesty the Queen, I would unceremoniously strip Harry and Meghan of all their titles with immediate effect and dispatch them back into civilian life…
In a series of staggeringly pompous statements on their gleaming new Hollywood-style website, they laid down the law to the Queen and to the rest of us about exactly how things are supposedly going to work from this moment on…
In other words, they want to be super-woke celebrities (with all the outrageous ‘Do as we say not as we do’ hectoring hypocrisy they’ve already brought to that status) who get to keep all the trappings of royal life without any of the hard, boring bits and the right to cash in on their status however they choose.
So, they want the glitz, the glamour, the splendor and the stupendous wealth….they just don’t want to have to actually earn it.
What a pathetic joke…
We all know there’s nothing these two fearless eco-warriors like more than stomping down their giant hypocritical carbon footprint one private jet at a time!
…To put it bluntly, [Meghan Markle is] an unsavory manipulative social-climbing piece of work who has inveigled her way into Prince Harry’s heart and used his blind love as a platform to now destroy everything he once held so dear.
She’s caused a tremendous rift between Harry and William.
She’s ruined Harry’s reputation with the public as a hugely popular fun, carefree soul, turning him into a miserable-looking, virtue-signalling laughing stock.
And now she’s ripped him away from his beloved grandmother, the Queen.
None of this has surprised me.
Meghan’s been doing this kind of stuff all her adult life.
She’s disowned 99 per cent of her own family.
She’s ditched and ghosted numerous old friends.
She got rid of her ex-husband when she tasted TV stardom.
And the former Deal or No Deal suitcase girl has done all this with barely a glance back to her past…
Meghan wants to live the life of an A-list star off the back of her new royal fame, cherry-picking all the good stuff like luxury tours, movie premieres, charity galas and Hollywood parties.
But she doesn’t want to get her hands dirty opening a community hall on a wet Wednesday in Stoke-on-Trent. That’s for the little royal people, not a superstar Princess like her…
But what genuinely worries me now is that the very future of the Monarchy may be in serious jeopardy if these two renegades have their way and become effectively a pair of rival royals bestriding the globe acting like they’re the big dogs, doing what the hell they like and using their royal fame to line their own pockets to the tune of millions like a pair of greedy, grasping hustlers, destroying the royal brand one grubby deal at a time.
It can’t be allowed to happen.
Nobody tells the Queen what to do.
She’s the most powerful, respected person in Britain.
And right now, she’s facing a direct threat to everything she has worked so hard to maintain.
Harry and Meghan’s astonishingly brazen and selfish antics have left her no choice but to cut them loose and fire them both from the Royal Family.
Get rid of these whining, ego-crazed, deluded leeches Ma’am – before it’s too late.
Global Queen of Woke?
Spiked editor Brendan O’Neill has similar thoughts about Megxit:
Forget the tripe about them fleeing the racism of the UK tabloids and the nonsense about the first DOC (duchess of colour) not being made to feel welcome in the stiff, white House of Windsor. No, H&M, the most right-on royals in history, are breaking off so that they can foist even more woke bollocks on the plebs without having to worry about receiving a tutting phone-call from Her Maj’s press secretary reminding them that they’re royalty and not virtue-signalling Hollywood celebs.
Megxit, as this royal bombshell is wittily being called, is a striking sign of the times. What Harry and Meghan are doing is virtually unprecedented in the history of the royals. They are jacking in their jobs (I say jobs) as senior royals and pursuing a more ‘financially independent’ path that will allow them to earn, travel and – this is important – jabber on about their pet concerns and causes as much as they like…
What it fundamentally reveals is the incompatibility of the modern culture of narcissism with the values of duty, loyalty and self-negation traditionally associated with royal life. To someone like Meghan, who sprang from celebville, who sees herself as the embodiment of right-on goodness, and who loves nothing more than advertising her eco-virtue and performing her PC credentials, life in the British monarchy was never going to be a good fit…Their unprecedented ‘stepping back’, and the fury this has allegedly caused in the Palace, suggests the cult of the self that Meghan and other showily virtuous celebs embody and promote, does not work within an institution whose ideal is the Queen: opinion-free, emotions hidden, dutiful, unquestioning and in it for the long haul…Indeed, the most striking thing about Harry and Meghan’s bombshell is the way they talk about the royal family as if it is little more than a stepping stone to their self-realization… To them, the monarchy seems to be little more than a workspace, a place where they learned some skills which they will now take into their new role as global promoters of wokeness and of themselves…
They sound more like Silicon Valley millennials making the case for a job promotion than members of a family that was allegedly chosen by God to rule the nation… Even more startling is the way they talk about the queen. They say they will ‘continue to collaborate with Her Majesty The Queen’. Collaborate with? They sound more like Kendall Jenner talking about her adverts with Pepsi than individuals who are meant to devote themselves for life to royal duty and the preservation of the crown…
Harry and Meghan haven’t been driven out by racism or prejudice or hatred. Rather, they’re ducking out of their own accord so that they can go even more global, more woke, more famously, internationally, irritatingly PC. They’re going to become even more insufferable. And here’s the thing: they will trade on their still existing royal titles to do so. So Meghan spent a couple of years in the royal family and now is pretty much leaving it while holding on to the duchess / princess thing in order to give her naff feminism and eco-posturing and celeb shoulder-rubbing more oomph? I’ll say it again: abolish the monarchy.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle recently trademarked the term “Sussex Royal.” Will they show up on QVC to hawk branded products?
I smell Markel Farkle all over this. I don’t think she could ever be a true royal. It is too restraining. She is now and always was raised to be a social climber. She and the royals deserve each other.
Perhaps Prince Harry saw his ‘get out of jail’ ticket in Meghan. He always seemed to be lost, out in orbit, acting out, a rebel, not sure what his destiny or purpose in life was and certainly not interested in the self-restraint and discipline of expected Royal duties, which is designed to serve the British people. Prince Harry found his purpose in Meghan – they both can rebel against the Monarchy using the Monarch’s dollars… the perfect example of the Millennial’s mind-set (it’s all about ME!)
This story is much bigger than the average person realizes. Meghan Markle is a con-woman who has been running a scam the entire time. She auditioned and was hired for her “role”. Her backers are our enemies. Globalists have to take down UK and US…………. Harry is NOT with her. He will not be leaving the UK and she will not be going back to the UK. Enjoy the show (PR war).