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Harry and Meghan, the most talked-about couple on the planet, are willingly supplying the tabloids with exactly what they want — seemingly endless content, bordering on gossip. But this time around, they’re controlling their own narrative. There’s Spare, Harry’s new book about growing up in the royal family. There is the Netflix docuseries about the couple’s life together, and there are interviews with Anderson Cooper, Variety and others. No one is spared, especially Harry’s older brother William.
But Straight Arrow News contributor Jordan Reid asks: Did Harry finally go too far?
The thing is I completely understand Harry’s frustration with having his story told for him. I completely understand the desire to take that narrative back through any means necessary – and he has means like, you know, $100 million Netflix specials. So yes. I understand why he’s doing this.
But something that I believe from the bottom of my heart is that trying to manipulate others’ opinions of you always – always – backfires, for the simple reason that…they don’t matter. The palace can come out tomorrow and say Meghan is heaven on toast, and there will still be lunatics out there fantasizing about her demise.
Should the palace have protected them better? Should they protect them even now? Of course they should. This is an embarrassingly antiquated institution that pulls outrageous amounts of money from the British coffers based on a legacy of colonization. They’re pretty terrible.
But enough people seem to like them that they’re still around and kicking, so they do have a responsibility to those who were brought into this extravaganza by virtue of being born, or falling in love.
But a very public character assassination – and that’s what this is – of one’s family, when the importance of public opinion is both the issue at hand and very, very much the problem…it doesn’t sit right. Would be curious to hear your thoughts in the comments.
