By Charles Ike-Okoh
THUR, JAN 09 2020-theG&BJournal- In Great Britain and around the world, the young Prince Harry has continued to defy categorisation. He is, the renegade. The ruthless one-when it comes to taking a stand against the wishes of the aging British Monarchy. A rebel who wouldn’t bulge whenever he deals one of those powerful low blows to the Crown. He personifies riot and revolt, and in a canny but hugely hurting way.
The Prince of tales dealt yet another huge low blow Wednesday that hurts even more than the pains the Iranians felt when their beloved Soleimani was shredded by U.S drones last week.
He quit.
In a pretty dramatic way too. He defied the Queen and announced plan to ‘’relaunch their careers’’; giving up their income from sovereign Grant (taxpayers money) and effectively ending their royal careers. They want to make their own money and live between England and North America.
It’s since been dubbed the worst day of the Queens life. Nothing compares to this, not even the headline hugging stories of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the paedophile-linked son of the Queen who has since been sentenced to Buckingham Palace Siberia where his role is reduced to that akin to a dish licking, maligned urban pig.
As with Prince Phillip, so with Harry. The strings that hold the invincible monarchy together are gradually being chewed away, and the nerves of the lovers of the monarchy are shivering once again. And the question in their minds, your guess is as good as mine, is-has the monarchy finally reached the crossroad?
The vices are what strikes you. Meghan Markle, the royal wife, is from a completely different world, more brash, independent and me-too generation different from the Harry’s world of yore, replete with dos and don’ts, ancient and fading. The royal household was once accompanied by miffed approval and men and women who ensured that rules are followed and who dutifully reported defaults in medieval style. In the house of Windsor things are quiet. Skilled courtyard staff wields high level influence on the Queen’s kids-no matter how old or young amid neatly tended gardens and terraces as they chaperon the future queens and kings of England. Here, the royal mantra is that the law is sacrosanct even if you disagreed with it. The vices of the old world have not changed.
But Prince Harry has had enough. Certainly, Meghan Markle has for longed yarned for a different kind of royalty, one also that is certainly devoid of crazy British media frenzy, the type that led to the death of Princess Diana, Harry’s mother. She too is fed up. They both have one thing in common and that is what has just been expressed in the way and manner they delivered this one last low blow. They both quit.
Their move is central to what they have said quite frequently, they say, they want to bring up their children away from the vindictive, prying and meddlesome British media; they must be given privacy at home and away from home.
That the British media is exercised is baffling to an outsiders such as myself from far away in Africa who have spent years wondering why the royals want to remain in the 12 century tradition when the rest of the world are jostling to be the first to send their royals to the moon.
The fulminating British monarchy and the scandal hungry press don’t get it. The couple want to move on. Just swallow the bitter pill and face the business of Brexit politics. Nothing is going to change the minds of these two modern prince and princess. Not even the opinion of bile spitting British know-it-all journalist, Piers Morgan who loves to use uncivilised words as ‘’royal hustlers, grasping, selfish, scheming Kardashian-wannabes, to describe Prince Harry and Princess Meghan.
Piers Morgan has made his reputation by stirring conflict- one reason why he was shunted out of CNN. The other reason, I believe is because he struggled to fill half the shoes the mighty Larry King wore before he retired from hosting Larry King. Morgan’s recent rant about Harry and Meghan reflects also the posturing of the putative British press that chimes with the royal establishment when things goes wrong, always resisting change even when it is a good change.
Nobody likes a broken family. The story is often pathetic. But this is not about a broken home it is about replenishing the blooming black rose that surprisingly sprang in an unlikely garden. And I don’t think it is something that should be cut off or derided but tended to. Let them go explore in their own ship.
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