La second delivery of the intimate documentary Harry and Meghan, broadcast Thursday, December 15 by Netflix, surprised by the brutality of the attacks of the couple against King Charles, Prince William, the staff of the palace and the press. Thus, about the family summit at Sandringham House, Norfolk, in January 2020, which led to the two lovebirds going into exile in the United States, Harry declares without taking gloves: “It was scary to see my brother yelling at me, my father saying untrue things and my grandmother, sitting in the middle, motus and mouth shut. »
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Settlements of accounts, betrayals, jealousies and grudges… nothing is spared the Windsor clan. And the youngest son of King Charles III should reoffend in his Memoirs, Spare (The spare wheel), the publication of which is announced for January 10.
Still, beyond their repeated provocations, the Sussexes have undoubtedly eaten their white bread. Faced with a catastrophic rating in the United Kingdom, and disappointing in the United States, of the series in six episodes, Netflix should not repeat the experience. Under these conditions, the question of the financial future of the duo – who live on a high footing in California – is posed.
Difficulties making ends meet
In such a context, the comparison between Harry and his great-great-uncle, the Duke of Windsor (1894-1972), is essential. After giving up the throne in favor of his brother George VI, in December 1936, to be able to marry Wallis Simpson, Edward VIII went into exile on the Old Continent.
Until his death, the ex-monarch had led an idle existence alongside Wallis Simpson, whom he had married in 1937. Any attempt to return to the country had been met with the refusal of Elizabeth II, very influenced by her mother, who had never forgiven the former king for having abdicated, precipitating the death of her husband, not at all prepared to wear the crown. Moreover, like Harry, the Duke of Windsor was totally dominated by his sweetheart.
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After having “plucked” George VI by extracting a well-endowed financial arrangement from him, the former monarch had been, during the war, governor of the Bahamas, where he had enriched himself by engaging in currency trafficking. And, even if the city of Paris had provided him with a sumptuous residence in the 16e borough, the couple had experienced great difficulty in making ends meet.
This is why many believe that in exchange for financial assistance from his niece, the person concerned had never disclosed anything about his battles with the royal family, in particular the opposition to the granting to the Duchess of the title of royal highness or the refusal to invite her to the wedding of the crown princess in 1947 or the coronation of 1953. Not to mention the absence of Royals at her nuptials in a French chateau attended by only seven British guests.
Preserving the future
For her part, Meghan has often been compared to Wallis Simpson. American and divorced, the two women met their prince charming at the same age, 34, and ended up marrying him. But, unlike the Hollywood actress, throughout her life, despite the humiliations suffered, the Duchess of Windsor worked for a reconciliation between the Duke and his family.
The one who was until the end the most hated woman in the United Kingdom has never revealed anything about the ins and outs of the abdication crisis. Quite the opposite of the Duchess of Sussex… If they rushed into the stretchers, Harry and Meghan, however, showed great caution in their documentary in order to preserve the future.
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The rebels have thus put a damper on their moods by sparing, for example, Queen Consort Camilla and Princess of Wales, Kate, whom they do not yet carry in their hearts. Not a word also of the three other children of Elizabeth II, Anne, Andrew and Edward, with whom they hardly have hooked atoms.
In addition to the financial carrot, the Sussexes are aware of the English court’s favorite modus operandi to get the recalcitrants into the nails: blackmail.
Not a real gentleman
Yesterday, the Palace had the reports of the secret services on the close links of the former king with the dignitaries of the IIIe Reich. Starting with the ambassador in London, who became Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joachim von Ribbentrop. For more than five decades, the Palace kept silent about a compromising letter from the Plenipotentiary asking the Duke of Windsor to intervene on its behalf with Churchill to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment.
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According to a document recently made public, the ex-sovereign had refused the request, not because of the role of von Ribbentrop in the organization of the Holocaust, or because he had been the lover of Wallis Simpson. The reason given by the duke? The condemned man, executed in 1946, was not a real gentleman who had bought his noble title…
In the same register, the general opinion, the Palace today keeps under the elbow the official report not published on the accusations of harassment of Meghan towards her collaborators at Kensington Palace. The document, very compromising, could “leak” in the event of new challenges launched by the Sussexes.