It just seems to me that in the efforts to keep things private, we end up with more drama than is necessary.
Perhaps, but the drama is occurring only in the minds of the media and royal fans who are creating, pandering, and/or being caught up in this overwrought narrative. The royal family and the Sussexes in particular are simply trying to respectfully and peacefully go about their business without undue fanfare. The Sussexes don't make decisions without thinking them through. They clearly believe it's better for their son and his godparents to not have their intimate relationships constantly scrutinized and endlessly written about. If the godparents were revealed, there would be story upon story about everyone who was selected, and lots of digging into their backgrounds for whatever could be found out and obsessed over and written about in a negative fashion.
Unfortunately, that's what's been happening to Meghan and everyone closely associated with her ever since H&M began dating. But sadly the worst development that led to ratcheted-up negative frenzy was when someone released palace scuttlebut to the press last November after the Sussexes returned from their enormously successful South Pacific tour. Give the tabloid press an inch and they'll take over hundreds of acres.
No amount of palace p.r. that has been generated recently (way too late) in an attempt to smooth over that egregious faux pas and its aftermath, is going to be able to erase or calm down the media frenzy and negative erroneous narratives that have grown exponentially, specifically targeted against Meghan. The nasty rumors and negative stories should have been dealt with much sooner. By this point the media has turned those questionable leaked tidbits into some kind of monster that refuses to die. What someone didn't realize however, is that nothing negative thrown at the Sussexes is going to change who they actually are. In every public appearance, who they are individually and as a team shines through forcefully and clearly. They can't be blamed for being themselves and for desiring to put their best foot forward in advocating for and supporting good causes, while still being able to have a peaceful, private life raising their offspring.
Another thing that the petty leakers and persons behind the leaks didn't seem to realize is that Meghan is not going anywhere. She's part of the royal family. And when one member of the royal family is treated outrageously nastily, it ends up looking bad for the whole firm. Particularly in view of the fact that Meghan is a smart, kind, accomplished member of the family who is in love with her husband, and who has brought a lot of hard work and positive assets to the firm. She's also quite human and fallible like everyone else, and she doesn't deserve this level of OTT, inaccurate stories being written about her character. The press is bringing the drama and the negativity, not the Sussexes.
The contradictions abounding in this 'circus-like' atmosphere surrounding the Sussexes contain so many fascinating social/psychological, and social/cultural twists and turns. Still, make no mistake that the Sussexes will continue preserving their privacy and doing their best to keep the circus noise and nonsense far at bay away from the raising of their little boy, who btw, seems to be rather calm and collected. That's cool, because Archie will need those reserves of calmness and strength of character as he grows up in the royal firm as a cousin of the young Cambridges. It appears that Archie (currently at least) is shaping up to be more sought after and written about than is truly necessary.
Probably the courtiers are hoping the opposite will become the case as the Cambridge kids continue to grow. Hopefully, the spotlight will be more on George, Charlotte and Louis, and fingers-crossed that they will be able to handle it with deft aplomb. Little Charlotte already is handling the press nonsense quite beautifully. As Charlotte bossily told reporters last year at Louis' christening,
"You can't come!" She meant the reporters couldn't follow her family into where they were gathering for refreshments.
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He has such an angelic face on the left picture. My mom thought he was a girl on that picture
