Hi everyone i hope you're all well so as some of you may know everyone's favorite least favorite
royal Meghan Markle has done two things of note in the last couple of weeks she's given birth
to a daughter which is lovely and she has also released her long-anticipated children's book
in rhyme the book titled the bench is based on a poem she wrote for her husband harry
the prodigal prince for father's day and contains various anecdotes about parenting and fatherhood
only the father in the book is very clearly Harry given the ginger hair and beard in the
illustrations and in fact it seems to be written for Harry rather than for children and the reviews
are not flattering the telegraph described it as a semi-literate vanity project stating that
it's all bland parenting wisdom and no story and it's hard to imagine any child enjoying it
royal expert Richard Eden compared it to a high school GCSE exam that the teacher would send back
with a C minus the Irish Times said that the story is so lacking in action and jeopardy you half
wonder if the writing job was delegated to a piece of furniture and that it reads as if it had been
penned as a self-help manual for needy parents rather than as a story to entertain small kids
however the biggest sting of all came from the final paragraph of the review in the Telegraph
one wonders how any publisher could have thought fit to publish this grammar defying set of badly
rhyming cod homilies let alone think any child anywhere would want to read it but that's planet
Sussex for you where even the business of raising a family is all about the brand and that right
there is the crux of it see there's a lot more to Megan's children's book than the ill-conceived
word salad of a new parent who is so loved up and emotional that they suddenly feel empowered
to write a children's book and there is a lot more to the announcement of the birth of their daughter
most pointedly her name it reveals i feel that Meghan Markle despite her protestations to the
contrary truly dislikes and resents the queen and intends to continue trying to permanently
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algorithms and agendas okay so the problem with Megan's new book aside from the very
very obvious is that even in the writing of a literal book for children megan still uses it
to take swipes at the royal family for example this he'll learn to ride a bike as you watch on
with pride he'll run and he'll fall and he'll take it in stride very obviously alluding to the claim
that Harry has made repeatedly that his upbringing was so callous and intruded upon that he was never
able to go for a bike ride with his father Prince Charles and that one of the wonderful
things about living in california is that he can put Archie in his baby seat on the back of
his bike and ride around with him in a way that he just never got to do with his own father as a kid
which was all well and good until soon after the Oprah interview these photos popped up hmm
spook too soon then there's this he'll feel happiness sorrow one day be heartbroken you tell
him i love you those words always spoken again a very obvious reference to what harry said when he
bagged out the Queen and Prince Philip for passing on generational pain to Prince Charles who in turn
passed it on to him cultivating an environment where nobody was affectionate or said i love you
oh so as the Telegraph points out it's all about branding and that branding involves megan taking
repeated stabs at the monarchy and the queen to constantly remind everyone of the only
reason she is well known nowadays and asserting again how horrible she thinks the royals are
it's all about brand management nurturing notoriety and maintaining what megan perceives to
be the upper hand in the cold war with the royal family because make no mistake it is a cold war
now for the longest time the Queen has maintained the old royal mantra of dealing with the press
and any public scandal never complain never explain she has kept the cold war largely cold
however this week something Megan and Harry did finally seemed to push her to the brink involving
the birth of their second child a little girl who megan and harry decided to name of all things
Lilibet now if you're thinking Lilibet bears a striking similarity to the name Elizabeth for you
would be right Lilibet is the private nickname of her majesty the Queen used from the time that she
was a little girl and had trouble pronouncing her name Prince Philip her husband of 73 years
until his recent passing was most well known for using the name privately so you'd think since
they've spent the last few months bashing the parenting skills of the Queen and Prince Philip
along with denouncing the entirety of the royal family as neglectful and racist it would seem a
bit rich for them to name their new baby daughter after Queen Elizabeth's pet name as some sort of
tribute to her as such many wondered why the Queen would be approving of such a name considering
also the fact she is well known for disliking nicknames for the royals to be used in public
however Megan and Harry were most insistent that they had asked the Queen for permission that she
had in fact given them her blessing and that right there is where the Queen finally drew the line
it has been reported that seemingly in light of this the Queen has instructed courtiers to correct
anything said publicly that misrepresents the private conversations of herself and other senior
royals now this is massive for her majesty since as i mentioned her rule has always been never
complain never explain and it seems the reason for her sudden change of heart is that in fact
Megan and Harry did not ask the queen about naming their daughter Lilibet as reported by the BBC
who cited a palace source this sparked a riotous response from Megan and Harry
who insisted again that they never would have used the name had the Queen not approved and
that the Queen was in fact the first family member that Harry called in advance of the announcement
so either this is another case of recollections may vary or it's a case of megan and harry
bending the truth to justify their actions and considering their recent history of demonstrably
doing just that repeatedly i'm inclined to think that it's the latter see knowing what i know of
the royals and as a citizen of the commonwealth an anglophile a royalist and a monarchist and a
conservative i do know quite a bit i don't think the Queen ever would have approved Lilibet as
a name for the child who remember is eight in line to the throne that is actually quite close
like i said the queen doesn't like nicknames to be used publicly and lillybet is at the end of the
day a nickname and a particularly personal one and in addition Prince Philip certainly would not have
approved which both the Queen and Prince Harry would know so what i think has happened is that
Harry has had this conversation with the Queen he's told that they would love to name the child
after her as a tribute the queen has interpreted it as an olive branch and thought oh how lovely
and assumed the little girl would be named Elizabeth which would be appropriate
isn't that right next minute the little girl is born and the name Lilibet is chosen which still
means that she's technically named after the queen so technically Harry wouldn't have been
lying when he told her majesty he would name the baby after her but it's not quite elizabeth which
the Queen would have assumed so if i'm correct and remember this is just my opinion the whole
video is just my opinion it would be Harry's omission which is its own form of deception
that would have perturbed the Queen thus rendering megan and harry's statement a misrepresentation of
a bribe of a private conversation with harry hence then the instruction to her coaches to
correct any misrepresentations moving forward in short the battle line seemed to have been drawn
never thought that this would be easy but i thought it would be fair
my family literally cut me off financially but i've got what my mum left me
anyway this brings me to the point that i really want to make as it speaks to the
manipulative strangely possibly unhinged nature of Meghan Markle's actions see naming the baby
Lilibet goes well beyond mere sycophancy or hypocrisy or a touching tribute i think it's a
total power play by Meghan Markle and a distinct act of spite see a couple of years ago when Harry
and Megan defected from the royal family the Queen forbade them from using the name Sussex
royal to label their new charitable organization and to be their brand generally now this was
partially because there are restrictions under uk law about using the word royal to brand things but
also because the queen has a long-held belief that the royals should not profit from their station
and since Megan and Harry plans to be financially independent as they put it and therefore profit
and as they were no longer royals the Queen and the palace decided that would be inappropriate for
them to use the word royal to brand themselves now this would really have stuck in Megan's side since
not only was it an inconvenience since they then had to rebrand everything and spend a huge amount
of money doing so she would have perceived it as a very public snub and megan who really wants to
have her cake and eat it too would have hated that and not understood it at all it's like on the one
hand when she originally claimed that she didn't care about royal titles for her son Archie but
nevertheless made a fuss about it when he didn't get one that's the mentality we're talking about
anyway what she's done here is take something very personal and unique to the Queen associated only
with her given it to her own child and not only that has actually licensed the domain
name Lilibet Diana which is the baby's second name of course so in a legal sense Meghan Markle
owns the name Lilibet just as the Queen owns the term royal so what was a dear term of affection
from her majesty's childhood taken up by Prince Philip her husband for 73 years has been snatched
disassociated branded and commercialized by Megan and not only all in the couple of
months just after Prince Philip's passing but in the same week as what would have been his 100th
birthday it was i think a very deliberate act to undermine the Queen invade her privacy and forever
associate the Sussexes with the palace since they no longer have their royal status but it
gets even more insidious now Meghan Markle when she scolds her little girl which she inevitably
will that's part of parenting will get to say no Lilibet stop Lilibet, Lilibet do as you're told
and just who do you think she will have at the back of her mind while she's doing that
Meghan Markle seemed to have an aversion to rules from the moment she joined the royal family
hence her refusal to assimilate Queen Elizabeth would represent to Megan the epitome of those
rules she would also have permanently prevented Megan from being the center of attention since the
Queen is after all the queen none of which Megan would have been able to handle so i don't think
there will be any softening from Meghan Markle in the wake of the new baby in her attempts to
erode the royal family but she should be wary of her majesty the Queen she is remember the
95 year old matriarch of the commonwealth and she knows how to wield a sword if you like that video
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