As Meghan Markle and Prince Harry embrace life in California with 22-month-old son Archie and a second baby on the way, another chapter has officially closed with an Oprah interview on CBS.
So much idiotic gossip mongering occurred, but the show was revelatory in terms of seeing how backward that thing called the monarchy is as it now seems obvious that the Prince Chuck division is responsible for its failure. Rather than the media monster created in the marriage with Diana, it does now seem like the real and deep neocolonial divisions in the former Empire remain, especially when “senior members” of the Royal family got concerned about the skin color of the next child of Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex.
In the Oprah interview, partially a non-explosion gender reveal among other things, is a look at the post-Diana monarchy in parallel to media productions like The Crown. The global audience for British Royal-watching now has more fodder, especially with the British tabloids. This did show how pernicious the “Tabs” have become in terms of its relation to the “Firm’s” PR needs.
This will all change when Prince Charles becomes King. For example because of becoming King, security will become mandatory for his grandson, Archie. If anything the interview reveals how priggish the Palace has always been, and that it actually has a human resources department. Unfortunately it is as meaningful as even paying attention to the story of Trump’s trying to get a date with the newly divorced Princess Diana.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s children’s minister said on Monday that there was no place for racism in society after Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, accused someone in Britain’s royal family of raising concerns about how dark their son’s skin might be.
“There is absolutely no place for racism in our society,” Vicky Ford told Sky News, though she said she had not seen the CBS interview which was aired overnight.
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Lewis Goodall, the policy editor for BBC’s current affairs program Newsnight, pointed out, however, that for now it seemed the most damage was to the royal family with these allegations of racism.
“Hard to imagine a worse set of headlines for the Royal Family (and therefore in a sense for the UK state),” he tweeted over the Daily Mail headline about the darkness of the baby’s skin. “Worst schism within the royal family since the Abdication (one which seems unlikely to be healed). And a set of allegations which cannot be swept away.”
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