Comparisons to Diana’s death in 1997 are inevitable. However, he does support the story of the Little Prince being haunted by ghosts. Last Tuesday, Prince Harry and Meghan’s “nearly devastating harassment” by “extremely aggressive paparazzi” in New York could have been another attempt to turn hair into hair.

If the NYPD and the taxi driver who transported the couple and Meghan’s mother are to be believed, the descriptions were still dramatic compared to reality. Moreover, the driver’s remark was characteristic: “I did not feel safe for a moment, unlike the passengers. But they didn’t grow up in New York.” At the same time, according to CNN, photo agency Backgrid USA said in a statement that the company takes the Sussexes’ allegations “seriously” and will investigate, saying, however, “the couple was not in imminent danger at any given time.”

All about popularity?

Do these statements mean that everything is ultimately done for the sake of popularity? The popularity, however, is based mainly on the story of the marginalized, lovesick and independent members of the most historic royal throne on the planet. Two roughly bohemian, roughly everyday, roughly revolutionary members of the British royal family decide to live away from titles, duties and palaces, because overexposure due to origin and status cannot stand – the prince says and says again that he does not want to live again yellow journalistic paranoia, that he went after his mother and it was worth that life and his mental, emotional and existential balance.

Their move to the US did not come with the privacy they said they were looking for.

However, this balance does not appear to be strengthened by the Sussexes’ decision to leave Britain, the palace and family altogether in 2020. Their move to the United States was not accompanied by the seclusion that they finally wanted to win for themselves and their children – which, however, deserves and has the right to every person, whoever he may be. The Land of Liberty certainly does not seem to be the welcome home of the Duke and Duchess. An oasis of personal life is overwhelmed by tropical rains and winds.

Are you sowing the winds? Maybe at some point you will reap storms. It seems somewhat oxymoronic and rather naive—unless strategically planned—to try not to catch the eye of journalists, photographers, and the rest of the world when you feed it biographies, Netflix documentaries, interviews with journalist influencers like Oprah Winfrey, and podcasts. overflowing with all the information that arouses the most scandalous instincts of people, not to mention those who make a living from stories gleaned from some real palace.

… precious fish of silence

However, an existing palace that has done its best to maintain its prestige and reinforce its role, importance and historicity as a link to the British nation, as well as survive among the voices accusing it of being obsolete due to history. A palace that seems to be doing its best not to survive 1997, which not only took Diana’s life, but also tarnished Charles’s reputation as the “third man” in his marriage to the grieving princess and even branded Queen Elizabeth, who in the early days of the tragic events in Paris kept a suspicious silence. That very methodical silence about the Sussex “untouchables”, which the entire British royal family keeps on duty after the incident in New York.

The madness in New York is reminiscent of Harry’s complaints about the press.

One the Sussexes will never live to see. As the New York Times wrote, the NYC frenzy is a reminder of Harry’s years of resentment against the British press, which remains the main market for paparazzi photographs. Harry has repeatedly blamed the press for his mother’s death, expressing fears that history might repeat itself with his wife and family. Last Tuesday’s episode also shows Harry’s dilemma: even the involvement of the NYPD didn’t save his family from the paparazzi who followed them even after they took refuge in the police station.

And this is what supports the Sussexes’ argument that they do not often return to the UK because they have been stripped of police protection as they have lost their status as active members of the royal family. Thus, it is the role of the police that justifies, according to Harry, his legal action against the UK Home Office after it denied his request that the Metropolitan Police provide protection for him and his family when they visit the UK. “I offered to pay for the insurance out of my own pocket,” he wrote in his autobiography, Spare. “I wasn’t sure how I should do it, but I was going to find a way.”

The case, as we read in the New York Times, is probably very expensive agreements with Netflix and Penguin Random House for a documentary and a book, respectively, which reached, in the first case, $ 100 million, and in the second, about $ 40 million per episode. from four books.

“The example of what happened in New York shows that the kind of police protection that Harry wants in London will not be enough to protect him or his family,” Ed Owens, a historian who has studied the relationship, told the NYT. MASS MEDIA. “He doesn’t take that reality into account.”

Various realities

But why are only Harry and Meghan facing this reality? “The toxicity of the relationship between the royal family and the media continued. There was both a softening of the press approach, and a more aggressive approach from the family in how issues related to them are covered, ”says Ed Owens.

The question of this reality is also raised by people who closely follow and study the British monarchy and with whom K spoke. Honestly, why isn’t anyone looking into William and Kate or Camilla, who would have every reason to do so because of their past with Charles and Diana? Because, say our interlocutors, in addition to the fact that active members of the British throne do enjoy the security they deserve, they fulfill their royal duties, adjust to the heavy legacy they carry; and all with a care that suits and Queen Elizabeth herself had a golden rule and mandate: distancing.

The golden rule of distancing

A troop that the Sussexes don’t have despite their physical absence from the palace. A detachment that has come to be associated with the “bad boy” who just wants to… live, even if he has to give up – or be taken away – the duties he was born to be trained to serve. And it would have been a pure, touching story of love and revolution if it hadn’t been accompanied by the “hair tangles” caused by Harry and Meghan, who felt oppressed in the bosom of the royal family, who had to follow the protocol and bow down to Elizabeth when he, according to apparently, he considered her only the grandmother of her husband – and nothing more.

It’s a distancing that came about with “hard talk” about Charles and William, with distortions of his views on Camilla, with revelations about palace media deal scenarios that left the Sussexes in the hands of the “yellows”. so far the royal family has been positively represented by the press.

The press, which Harry blames for the drama of his mother and his own family, but “wants to ‘bleed’ the instincts of the philanthropic public”, as it is conveyed in “K”, while “William and Kate do not”. t “get” the question.

Sussexes ‘reveal’ problems

From the Sussexes, however, she will continue to “leave”, because what else could Meghan Markle’s hiring of communications manager Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton Katie McCormick Lelyveld for $ 90,000 mean, here and there the press writes somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean? Different – good or bad – say that she is interested in politics as an extension of her philanthropic work for women and girls. It doesn’t matter, recruiting such an influential person to the state of Sussex is a feat in itself.

Popularity is high in the US, record low in the UK.

However, Harry is still the most beloved member of the British royal family in the US, with Meghan Markle in fourth place behind Kate and William. But the popularity of the Sussexes in Britain is at an all-time low, perhaps proving that the British remain true to tradition and that… royal revolutions only count for readability, not acceptance.

And the paparazzi will continue to stalk them, as in the US they have not faced – at least not yet – the public outcry that their British counterparts have faced, who now seem more restrained as they publicly humiliated Diana as well, and wiretapped press calls. -Murdoch groups. in Old Albion.

As the NYT recalls, the Netflix documentary depicts the royal couple nervously looking out the car windows at photographers chasing them as they leave the garage and head to the event. This scene takes place in Manhattan…