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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stephen Bates

If Harry and Meghan were hoping to change the royal family, they’ll be disappointed

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, at Windsor Castle, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, 10 September 2022.
‘Was it worth it for Harry and Meghan? That depends what they were hoping for.’ Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/AP

So this is what snowbound, strike-hit Britain needed on a Thursday morning: a rich and entitled couple living in agreeable circumstances in California bemoaning their treatment by the media, the royal family, courtiers, a woman in the crowd in Liverpool, Meghan’s father and even the Queen by implication. Assailed by “them” and “they”.

Yes, it’s the Harry’n’Meghan show on Netflix again, another two and a half hours in which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex back resentfully into the limelight to reveal once more their truth, complete with home movies of their son Archie and copious intimate photographs showing them intruding on their own privacy.

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