Being a Hart, which is painfully English, I have always been sort of an Anglophile. Of all your “philes” out there, I guess it is not the worst one to be.
I watched the whining session between Meghan Markle and Prince Harry and America’s sweetheart, Oprah, on Sunday. If you missed it, it was an interview where a multimillionaire prince and an actress worth tens of millions of dollars commiserated with Oprah, herself a billionaire, about how bad they have it. I guess the lesson for the young folks out there is that, no matter how well you succeed in America, you can always pretend to be a victim of racism and a long list of fashionable “isms” – even if you are a WASPY prince of England.
Meghan and Harry have shown the world that, to be accepted by the liberal establishment no matter how successful you are, you still have to find some reason to feel that you are oppressed and angry. No matter your circumstances, an easily triggered sense of resentment and being able to read microaggressions into everything are really the recipe for success.
It is not a good look. The storyline is a spin on an old tale, except in this case Meghan Markle will be the first lady to have turned a prince into a frog. She’s the Yoko Ono of the British royals.
Keep in mind, America fought one major war and a couple of small ones so we don’t have to pay attention to the royalty in Great Britain. But we do anyway. Everyone loves a fairy tale, and there is something about being born a prince that captivates all of us.