Meghan and Harry by Lady Colin Campbell

Author:Lady Colin Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911350897
Publisher: Dynasty Press
Published: 2020-05-15T13:28:05.984000+00:00

If Meghan was naive enough to think that the palace wouldn’t hear about her plans, she was mistaken. There is very little that happens in the royal world that the palace doesn’t get wind of, usually sooner rather than later. As long as she functioned within royal parameters, no one objected to her ambitions, though the feeling was that it is always safer to err on the side not being too driven, excessive ambition being somewhat suspect in royal circles since the days of Lady Macbeth and certainly something to be avoided since Charles I lost his head to the axe in 1649.

Although Meghan’s well-wishers, myself included, would have liked her to set her sights lower, she has always been astonishingly open about her objectives and ambitions, including to the professionals she briefs. As Nelthorpe-Cowne has stated, Meghan told her that she and Harry intended to ‘change the world’, which she actually interpreted as meaning that Meghan wanted to ‘rule the world’. While that might seem an exaggeration of Meghan’s aim, the admission that she and Harry felt they could change the world showed that they both had no issues with confidence and that they were eager to wield influence above and beyond what royals are expected to possess in this democratic age. She also told her media people that she wanted to break the internet, and would later on that year be disappointed when the Vogue magazine issue which she guest edited failed to achieve that objective, despite her specific instructions that her American media representatives, Sunshine Sachs, should strive to achieve that objective.

For all her forthrightness, Meghan did not seem to appreciate that articulating such ambitions, when you’re a member of a royal family, might be acceptable in the United States, but in Britain they leave the listener wondering whether you really have any understanding of what your role should be. It is no more appropriate for a royal duchess to want to break the internet, to be the most famous woman in the world, or to have the largest Instagram following, than for her to want to pose nude in Playboy magazine or become the Pope of Rome. Each ambition is equally undesirable, for the reasons which follow.

The royal world is not a platform for personal achievement or the realisation of personal ambitions, but a fully-established and functional organ of state. Popes, prostitutes and princesses should not aspire to certain degrees of recognition, for, in doing so, they denigrate their proper function and disparage the institution of which they are a part.

Once the palace were informed about Meghan’s brief to her people in LA, they naturally worried that she might inflict damage upon the monarchy as she set about achieving such contemporary and inappropriate ambitions. Nowhere in her brief had there been the typically royal concepts of duty, obligation, unsung public service, or any of the other driving forces behind the monarchy. If the information as reported back to them really was as stated by the well-placed

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