Harry And Meghan Hit By ‘Deranged Nonsense’ Claims — And The Latest Attack Has Crossed A Line
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are targets for those spewing ugly nonsense (Image: Getty)
If the baying online mob is to be believed, the nation will not be satisfied until the returning Duchess of Sussex is dragged in chains from the Beauchamp Tower to Tower Green to meet an executioner’s axe. “But a beheading would be too good for her!” meanies bellow. “The King ought to bring back hanging!” Such ugly, deranged nonsense – I’ve also seen calls for protest marches and gang aggression – exposes a societal sickness that is getting dangerously out of hand. Some are so consumed by hatred and violence, they warn that if the Crown doesn’t step up, they’ll go and finish off Meghan themselves. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?
Everybody take a moment. What’s happening here? His Majesty King Charles III’s second-born son Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex will relocate imminently from California to his homeland with his wife and two children to educate his offspring and resume a close relationship with his father and stepmother. Neither the monarch nor the Queen has commented publicly. Nor have the Waleses. Yet complete strangers are assuming intimate knowledge of their thoughts and emotions, adopting a livid stance on their behalf, hubbling and bubbling like Macbeth’s witches and making matters worse before the plane has even taken off.
Harry and Meghan are no longer working royals. There is no indication that they will seek to revert. Should that happen, it will be in agreement with the King and will be orchestrated to the acceptance of all concerned. Cue further spite and fury.
“Why should we pay for them! They are nothing to us! They made their bed, let them lie on it!” There are now demands for the couple to relinquish commercial activity or forfeit their titles, along with those of Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
What’s the answer? Only this: forgiveness and reconciliation. We could bang on, as Harry has done in the past, that this is all Charles’s fault for having married a girl he didn’t love while maintaining the mistress who is now his consort, thus “causing Diana’s death” and implanting trauma in his sons from which they will never recover.
Or we could acknowledge the grave errors all round. The royals, as human as we are, must be merciful. Harry and Meghan could humbly apologise, those wronged could graciously accept, then everybody moves on and the cousins get to rock up at each other’s birthday parties.
Our monarchy – for which public support fell to its lowest ebb last year in the wake of the Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein scandal – could be tightened and fortified, and would survive. Because there’s always the alternative. Only malcontents hell-bent on bitter revenge will argue otherwise.
