On the walk to church, the guests at the King’s Norfolk estate put on a customary show of unity for the cameras after the turmoil over Prince Andrew’s enforced exile from the family party following damaging revelations about his business relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.
But they could also be forgiven for wondering why they were not allowed to be half in and half out of the Firm, making their own money, while supporting the monarch as they wished.
What the Duke and Duchess of Sussex may see as a two-tier approach by the Royal Household still rankles, but after venting his spleen about his family in his memoir Spare and in a Netflix series, Harry seems calmer in public these days despite the rift with his father, stepmother, brother and sister-in-law that shows no sign of healing.
Harry and Meghan at Lagos airport (Photo : Andrew Esiebo/Getty Images for The Archewell Foundation)“I very much enjoy living here and bringing up my kids here,” he told the journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook summit earlier this month. “It’s a part of my life that I never thought that I was going to live.”
There was a time when he and Meghan wanted to be based in Africa, in Cape Town, when they were still official working royals. But America now looks likely to remain their base, even during a second Donald Trump presidency. Trump is no fan of the couple and the feeling is mutual, but in spite of his threats to expel Harry if it transpires that he lied about drug use on his visa application, the incoming president’s son, Eric, has suggested there will be more important things to worry about.
The Sussexes, it seems, will have a potential bolthole in Portugal – their office has neither confirmed nor denied reports that the couple are buying a home close to where Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank have a place, which suggests the stories are true. Neighbours at the CostaTerra Golf and Ocean Club are certainly expecting them and think they want to use the house as an investment and as a way of gaining a visa to travel around Europe more easily.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex during the Giant of Africa Foundation at the Dream Big Basketball clinic in Lagos. (Photo: Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)
Harry and Meghan, they insist, will still do joint public appearances in future and are planning further overseas trips similar to the quasi-royal or “royal lite” visits to Nigeria and Colombia this year.
Invictus and the African youth charity Sentebale, which Harry founded with Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso in 2006 in memory of their mothers, remain central to his work. With Harry no longer based in London, Sentebale is moving its leadership team and decision-making to southern Africa as part of a wider transformation of the charity’s focus. Instead of concentrating on combatting Aids, it is working much broadly on issues of youth health, inequality and climate resilience.
Their biggest problem, according to critics, is that while their tales of mistreatment inside the Royal Family proved compelling commercially and internationally, the public seems less interested in what they film and say about other topics. They no longer represent the British state or monarchy. So for whom now do they speak, apart from themselves?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussez during their tour of Colombia in August (Photo: Eric Charbonneau/Archewell Foundation via Getty Images)
Harry, however, seems relaxed about it. Perhaps he does not need the money after inheriting a reported £8m on his 40th birthday from a trust fund set up by his late great-grandmother, the Queen Mother.
Harry, who is expected to give evidence in the witness box over four days, will likely have to pay both sides’ legal fees, estimated to be between £10m and £15m, after he and the former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson became the last two people among 1,300 original claimants to reject an out-of-court settlement with Rupert Murdoch’s company.
He sounds less angry about the media these days, insisting he avoids reading most things about himself whereas he used to confess to seeing everything and scouring the comments under online articles. His aim, he has said, is accountability, exposing the practices allegedly used to obtain information about him.
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But the royal biographer Ingrid Seward suggested that the costs will not trouble him. “Harry is a very rich and privileged young man but he still hasn’t really achieved everything he wanted to do,” she said.
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