Osipi
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Does Beatrice no longer live there? I know she's in the UK currently, but her job was originally based out of New York, and she lived there for several years. I don't recall her ever being greeted like a visiting dignitary, because she wasn't one. There were no DHS motorcades, either.
I think if we really look at this objectively through the eyes of someone that isn't a royal watcher like us and didn't stay up to the minute on the antics of this couple over the past two years and read a report on what this couple is doing in NY, why they are there, and all the trimmings that come with these reports, we'd probably go "meh..." and move on to something more interesting in the news.
As I've stated before, I don't believe that anything that has come to pass has anything to do with being given the royal red carpet and courtesies. The very high security could have been for anything from chatter on the DHS of possible terrorists attacks to a whole lot of other things they don't make public every day. I'm linking a good article containing a speech by Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI as he addressed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Washington, D.C., September 21, 2021.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/...-the-landscape-20-years-after-911-wray-092121
To us, it's easy to think that because Harry and Meghan still *do* remain royal that any *special" treatment must be due to their royal status. I don't think that's so if you really look at other possibilities of the possible causes for things such as the DHS motorcade, high security at the time etc.
I'm trying to remain objective in all this. Put aside anything I think of the couple personally and follow this weekend's events with a clear mind.