Friday 12 March 2021

Will Meghan and Harry be happy with what they have achieved?

Now the weekend is approaching in London and in LA I wonder how Meghan and Harry (it has to be Meghan and Harry now, not Harry and Meghan) are looking back at The Interview and wondering whether it all went to plan and whether it has helped to give them a brighter and more affluent future. On the face of it if they just read the American papers they did pretty well. There have been numerous stories questioning whether the British royal family is racist and sympathy for the way Meghan claims she was treated. Back in London of course the sympathy levels haven't been quite so high. In fact mostly the opposite. There has been, if you like, a general rallying behind the Queen in her 95th year. Meghan and Harry I'm sure have absorbed all the millions of words that have appeared in the British press since they were interviewed by Oprah Winfrey and will have got a lot of satisfaction from the departure of Piers Morgan from ITV's Good Morning Britain show. Once a friend of Meghan's and now top enemy, Morgan went one insult too far while trashing Meghan and paid the penalty, although I have no doubt he will emerge soon in some other television presenting capacity. You can't keep a man like Piers Morgan down for long. But Meghan who joined 41,000 other viewers who complained to the television watchdog about his behaviour will have felt she scored well there. So while Meghan and Harry sit in their LA mansion with a reported 16 bathrooms - is that even possible? - they can reflect on the fact that probably every single newspaper on the planet had an item, big or small, on their front page about The Oprah interview. So, mammoth publicity for the Duke and Duchess, sorry Duchess and Duke, of Sussex brand, at least for the next year or so. But then what? Will they ever be able to move back to London? Meghan certainly won't want to. Her life is now LA LA LAND. But I just don't see Harry dancing in the aisles after upsetting his grandmother, his grandfather, his father, his brother, most of the British press and probably a large percentage of the British people. LA LA LAND will not be his cup of tea for ever.

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