What’s up guys, Happy New Year!
It’s Sussan Mourad back here on Clevver News, and it appears that the royal drama
is still going strong in 2021 - let’s get into it.
Apparently the saying ‘new year, new me’ rings especially true for Prince Harry, who
has reportedly adapted a noticeable amount of new tendencies since moving to the West
Coast, and is even being accused of following directly in his wife’s footsteps.
As many followers of the royals are aware, this Friday, January 8th, officially marks
one year since Harry and his wife Meghan Markle announced that they would be “stepping back”
from royal duties and balancing their time between the UK and the US (pre-COVID, of course).
Last week also marked the very first of many podcast episodes from their $18 million deal
with Spotify, which had many listeners talking, including Harry’s biographer, Angela Levin.
According to a new op-ed for The Sunday Telegraph titled “How America Has Changed Prince Harry,”
Harry’s biographer, Angela Levin, is accusing him of QUOTE “meekly” following Meghan
Markle’s apparent “woke” ways, and in her words, is tossing his “life as an action
man to become an airy-fairy do-gooder.”
Upon listening to the first episode of Archewell Audio, Angela also claimed that while Meghan
“has blossomed back in her native” California, Harry QUOTE, “has become a shadow of the
prince I once knew.”
She added QUOTE, “Of course, he would not be the first man to be besotted with a beautiful
woman with a different agenda, that he then meekly adopts as his own,” adding that he
“seems to accept being second to Meghan.”
Another observation made by Angela, who spent months following him for her 2018 book Harry:
A Biography of a Prince, was how obvious Harry’s accent has allegedly changed to fit what is
referred to as the “woke West Coast life,” as he uses terms like ‘twenny twenny,’
and ‘I wanna’, to name a few.
“Welcome to our 2020 Holiday Special from
Archewell Audio.
I’m Harry.”
“And I’m Meghan.
Thank you for joining us.”
“We’re glad you’re here.
As we all know, it’s been a year.”
West Coast slang aside, Angela also pointed
out that Harry and Meghan also “repeat, several times, a favorite phrase of theirs:
‘Love wins,’” to which she added, “I don’t think many senior members of the Royal
family have felt much of that love over the past 12 months,” referring to their infamous
royal exit.
Speaking of their major money-making deals, which also includes a multi-year Netflix gig,
Angela wrote in her article that these “endless announcements could be seen as insensitive
at a time when hundreds of thousands of livelihoods were lost.”
Annnd she didn’t stop there.
Angela appeared to be especially disappointed that Harry, who previously “excelled at
giving people hope and strength,” has just “tucked his family away in a multi-million-dollar
mansion in California,” during the ongoing pandemic, “making himself look out of touch.”
In the closing statements of the op-ed, Angela made note of Harry and Meghan’s request
to extend their 12-month deal as a means of continuing to live as non-working royals in
California.
She said QUOTE, “He may miss his family and all the privileges that entails,” also
adding he may be “keen to reconnect with the charities he once supported… or perhaps
he just realises that royalty is forever, but celebrity is not.”
Clearly Angela did NOT hold back in sharing how she truly feels about the “new” Prince
Harry, but it seems the couple is also still on rocky terms with the royal family.
Back in November, we reported that Harry was excluded from the Remembrance Day ceremonies
held in London to honor the end of World War I.
However, new reports this week claim that rather than palace officials, it was solely
the queen’s decision to exclude Harry’s request to have a wreath laid for him during
the annual event.
The Daily Mail reported QUOTE, “It’s one of the most important dates in her calendar
and nothing is done without her knowledge.
And what’s more, she actually had very strong views on the subject.”
Another source confirmed that sentiment, adding, “While she has enormous admiration for Harry’s
achievements both in and out of the military, this was seen as an example of his lack of
understanding at what it means for him to be a non-working royal.”
The insider further explained that the queen’s stance on coming in and out of the royal institution
is pretty set in stone, explaining, “Either you are in or you are out,” and that Harry
was reportedly told back in January by her that “you work for the monarchy, the monarchy
doesn’t work for you.”
The verdict is still out on whether Harry and Meghan’s request to extend ‘Megxit’
will be granted, but for now, the odds aren’t looking too promising.
As always, we’ll be sure to update you when more information becomes available.
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recent actions right down here in the comments.
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, you can find me on Instagram @Sussan_Mourad, bye guys!