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From the headlines and the evaluation here I did not find the interview all that shocking.
The remarks about the tabloids should not be surprising to anybody, this is mostly well-known.
I think they have a point about the security. Although many members do not agree with me, I thought it irresponsible to take the security away. Harry needs security due to his birth, wherther he is in the UK, in Canada or on the moon. He did not chose to be born into this family. For now his son will be much better known that many of the Queen's grandchildren, which brings much more security risks to the table too.
As for Charles and William being trapped: I don't see why this is harmful for their reputation. If anything it will make people sympathise with them more. I don't think it is a surprise to anybody that the royals live in a golden cage and that this can be difficult at times.
I found the wish to carve out a life of their own understandable. I never saw an issue in them actually stepping down as senior royals and finding a job & still doing some events on the side. But I can see why the preferred carreer path in the public eye would be a problem for the palace. It would set up a rival court that could do exactly as they pleased, no matter the backlash it would bring in the UK. If they would have chosen to pursue a carreer as a civil servant, an architect or a banker I don't think we would have seen an escalation as we have seen now.
Titles: seems they have made a bit of a mess out of this part. But for outsiders it is an obvious question and rightly or wrongly many were wondering about it at the time of Archie's birth.
Nice that they revealed the gender of their child to us!
In general:
I don't think this interview is as damaging as it could have been. Compared to the Diana interviews it was rather mild.
Some issues seemed to lack context. Motivations and details that might explain why the palace reacted the way it did were often left out - it could be that the duke and duchess are not aware of them. The part where Charles is not taking telephone calls from Harry will certainly have a bigger backstory to it than was given in the interview for example.
I can't see the pair of them returning to anything but the bare essensials in the UK in the near future. I imagine relatives & courtiers would be mistrustful that anything they do or say would immidiately be reported to the press. And of course the duke and duchess may have the same fear, that 'sources in the palace' will leak new negative stories about them. Trust comes on foot and goes away on horse, so that will obviously take time to re-build, if it is possible at all.
I hope that at least the Duke and Duchess can move on from this and that they will not fall into the same trap as Edward VIII did: spending decades obsessing over his family while getting increasingly bitter. What is done is done and it would be best for everybody to move forward.
The remarks about the tabloids should not be surprising to anybody, this is mostly well-known.
I think they have a point about the security. Although many members do not agree with me, I thought it irresponsible to take the security away. Harry needs security due to his birth, wherther he is in the UK, in Canada or on the moon. He did not chose to be born into this family. For now his son will be much better known that many of the Queen's grandchildren, which brings much more security risks to the table too.
As for Charles and William being trapped: I don't see why this is harmful for their reputation. If anything it will make people sympathise with them more. I don't think it is a surprise to anybody that the royals live in a golden cage and that this can be difficult at times.
I found the wish to carve out a life of their own understandable. I never saw an issue in them actually stepping down as senior royals and finding a job & still doing some events on the side. But I can see why the preferred carreer path in the public eye would be a problem for the palace. It would set up a rival court that could do exactly as they pleased, no matter the backlash it would bring in the UK. If they would have chosen to pursue a carreer as a civil servant, an architect or a banker I don't think we would have seen an escalation as we have seen now.
Titles: seems they have made a bit of a mess out of this part. But for outsiders it is an obvious question and rightly or wrongly many were wondering about it at the time of Archie's birth.
Nice that they revealed the gender of their child to us!
In general:
I don't think this interview is as damaging as it could have been. Compared to the Diana interviews it was rather mild.
Some issues seemed to lack context. Motivations and details that might explain why the palace reacted the way it did were often left out - it could be that the duke and duchess are not aware of them. The part where Charles is not taking telephone calls from Harry will certainly have a bigger backstory to it than was given in the interview for example.
I can't see the pair of them returning to anything but the bare essensials in the UK in the near future. I imagine relatives & courtiers would be mistrustful that anything they do or say would immidiately be reported to the press. And of course the duke and duchess may have the same fear, that 'sources in the palace' will leak new negative stories about them. Trust comes on foot and goes away on horse, so that will obviously take time to re-build, if it is possible at all.
I hope that at least the Duke and Duchess can move on from this and that they will not fall into the same trap as Edward VIII did: spending decades obsessing over his family while getting increasingly bitter. What is done is done and it would be best for everybody to move forward.
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