哈里王子and all his friends

今天，哈里王子在白金汉宫举办橄榄球2021年世界杯平局。这是他自桑德灵汉峰会以来的第一次正式订婚，之后女王宣布她对苏塞克斯特的支持。有些人想知道这是否可能是他作为高级皇家的最后一次露面。的成员卡特尔were there today – so, certainly, if it’s not the last official appearance for Harry, it’s one of the last times that the royal rota will be invited to one of his events. Predictably, as soon as the rota reporters started asking him about working out the details of Sussexit, he turned and left. Harry has, in the past, especially on tours, barely been able to stand these people; I’ve heard stories about him glaring at them from time to time. There’s a lot of anger here that’s been accumulating over decades now.

But here’s the inside baseball on why today’s press presence, and specifically which press made up that presence, can give us some valuable insight on what’s going on behind the scenes. The only media invited today were royal rota aka the Cartel. And today’s media was handled by the communications team at Buckingham Palace proper, and not Harry and Meghan’s personal PR, since the event took place at the Queen’s home. There were no international media outlets, like the American major networks NBC, ABC, and CBS, approved to cover Harry’s engagement. Remember, when Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor was born, a CBS camera, providing American pool feed, was allowed to film Archie’s first appearance at Windsor Castle along with the PA and a British press pool camera for the UK– and that’s it, no other media. The Cartel was PISSED.

Harry and Meghan have made it clear their feelings about The Cartel – they’re suing a few of them after all – and so when you consider that the Cartel were the only press present today as organised by Buckingham Palace… well…

知道我们对哈利对皇家罗塔的看法以及苏塞克斯人计划通过自己的媒体策略进行行动的计划了解的内容，这表明该公司打算照常营业。这突出了哈里王子和他的家人之间有深刻争议的要点。

The message is pretty clear. Sussexit means that Harry and Meghan are free to manage their media how they want to but for the British royals, they’re upholding the status quo – and not only that, they’ll do so even over his objections … in his face! They will continue to work with the Cartel, even though Harry must have pointed out to them that these are the same publications he and his wife are suing for their racist coverage. Don’t think for a second that they wouldn’t have known how that would play with Harry, especially today. And don’t think for a second that it wouldn’t exacerbate how he’s been feeling about this whole mess.

In other Sussex media news, PEOPLE Magazine isn’t a member of the royal rota and wasn’t there today (and they’re usually present for royal engagements now as they have a dedicated royal reporter, Simon Perry) and is not typically associated with the trash that gets published in the UK tabloids. It was PEOPLE that published that cover story in the early part of 2019 featuring insight from five of Meghan Markle’s friendsspeaking anonymously about her experience. In its new cover story this week, PEOPLE reports that Harry “cut off” many of his longtime friends about six months into Meghan’s pregnancy:

“Most no longer even have his cell number,” says the insider. “They totally understand that men often drift from their friends after marriage, but there’s still a lot of resentment because they had been so close for so long.”

一个例外是查理·范·斯特鲁本齐。好朋友在卢德格罗夫预科学校见面，此后一直保持着亲密关系 - 实际上，他们在2018年相隔几个月的互相婚礼上都很微笑。VanStaubenzee也是Archie的教父。

当然，这符合梅根·马克尔（Meghan Markle）是一个控制的巫婆的叙述，他策划了将哈利与他的世界隔离开来，并为自己偷走了他。当两个人聚在一起，其中一个人离开社交圈时，这绝非易事。通过观察或个人经验，我们大多数人可能熟悉这种情况。而且您知道可以从这些情况中出现的八lol赛事中心卦。

梅根那个bit子吗？这是观察它的一种方式。但是，正lol赛事中心如我一直说的那样，八卦是自助餐。而这种自助餐的另一个选择是考虑到哈利曾经与之闲逛的人属于英格兰的某个社会阶层。他的社交圈子并不多，由特权的白人孩子和斯隆游骑兵组成。具有讽刺意味的是，当威廉和哈利与他们一起滚动时，这些人曾经在英国媒体上被嘲笑，现在他们被描绘成被留在后面的悲伤，不幸的忠实朋友。

这些也是人Harry would have been spending the most time with socially when he made his biggest mistakes. Who do you think he was partying with when he infamously stepped out in a Nazi uniform? Remember when he went to Vegas and was photographed naked and cupping his balls playing pool? Several members of that crew are said to be the people Harry has “cut off”. What’s the likelihood of hanging out with this crowd and not experiencing a microaggression?

The rebuttal to this for those who don’t quite buy into the Sussex position is that they’re simply trading one spoiled friend group (British socialites) for another: Meghan’s celebrity connections. Yep, good point. Movie stars and fashion influencers aren’t exactly accessible either. But there are few environments that are as homogenous as the British socialite ecosystem. And Serena Williams and Amal Clooney, while very famous, are women of colour. As unrepresentative as Hollywood has been in the past, even Hollywood has more diversity than William and Harry’s social circle.

So is it that Meghan’s the proverbial controlling, domineering usurper who came into Harry’s life and kidnapped him from his friends? Or is it that by having her in his life, it opened him up more to the narrow worldview that his friends were limiting him to?