Tuesday 14 January 2020

Can Meghan ever return from Canada?

The Duchess of Sussex is apparently in a house in Vancouver while her husband negotiates with the rest of the Royal Family how he, his wife and child Archie should live in the future. To be brutally honest, the longer Meghan stays in Canada the more difficult it's going to be for her to return to Britain. She should have been at Harry's side when the Sandringham summit was going on. She is his wife and is therefore very much part of the Royal Family and definitely should have been with him to discuss everything together. Now we know that the original reported plan for her to take part in a phone call from Canada during the Sunday meeting never took place. Well of course it didn't. I can just hear the Queen's advisers: "Ma'am, the duchess has made the decision to stay in Canada, so I really think it would be best if we just deal with the Duke of Sussex. He is your grandson, your blood, she isn't." So two mistakes by Meghan. First she left Archie behind in Canada when she returned briefly with Harry to fulfill an engagement. Second she flew straight back to Canada once it was over, not to pick up Archie and bring him home but to stay in exile, effectively indicating she no longer wanted to live in Britain. And now, as I said, the longer she stays over there it will become increasingly difficult, nee impossible, for her to come back and live a normal royal life, ie attending functions etc as if nothing has happened. As soon as she returns, the press and press photographers will go mad, and everything will be recycled all over again. She must know that, so she will dread ever coming back. If she has any advisers left they must all be telling her this but presumably she is ignoring them because now it seems she hates Britain, she hates the British press and she cannot tolerate the Royal Family. It is truly a personal disaster for her. Harry has persuaded the Queen to go along with his plans for a semi-detached royal role but I don't think it's going to work because the more Meghan is required to make herself publicly available for events and functions in Britain alongside Harry, she is going to be miserable. What she wants is to be left alone to live a private life in Canada without having to play any role anymore in the British way of life. That obviously is my assessment, not based on any sources. So the next few weeks are crucial. If Harry returns to Canada in the next few days, following the rubgy function he is due to attend on Thursday,he will have to try and persuade Meghan that actually the world is not against her and she needs to be courageous and come home to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor Park with her husband and child and present a happy face and a more amicable attitude towards the press. However, I fear it's all too late. Things have got too bad. Basically she has had enough of Britain, and that's very bad news for Harry and his future with the Royal Family.

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