From prince to commoners: how life with Meghan Markle changed Prince Harry
'30.01.2020'
Source: Newspaper.ru
After Prince Harry left for Canada - to Meghan Markle and Archie - the Internet does not cease to joke that the actress was the only woman who managed to marry the prince and turn him into a frog. The audience is surprised by simple jackets and hats in which the dukes appear in the pictures of the paparazzi. However, the changes noted in Prince Harry are not sudden. Gazeta.Ru - about how the grandson of Elizabeth II gradually lost touch with the royal family.
Last week, the grandson of the British Queen, Prince Harry left the UK: January 21, shortly after Buckingham Palace announced that the Duke of Sussex and his wife are no longer “working” members of the royal family and the appeal “Their Royal Highness” no longer applies to them Harry flew to Canada to join the family in the hope of leading a quiet life. However, the UK is still raging: today, January 26, it became known that the senior Windsor were extremely upset by the press explaining the separation of the Dukes of Sussex - supposedly the family suppressed them.
According to The Sun, citing a source, even before the wedding on May 19, 2018, Elizabeth II offered future spouses a life free from royal duties, so that Meghan Markle would not give up her acting career and softly and gradually enter the life of the palace and learn the royal protocol. However, the star of the series "Force Majeure" did not accept this proposal.
“From the very first days, the Queen really wanted to make the Megan transition smooth. The proposal would allow her to pursue a career, but she was happy to stop acting and become a working member of the royal family, ”said The Sun.
He added that Harry's family is extremely upset by the fact that it seems that the Dukes of Sussex were brought to leave the family.
Accept Meghan Markle the Queen’s proposal two years ago - and Prince Harry would probably not have to explain to the British that he is looking for a quiet life in Canada.
Speaking in the evening of January 19 at a private charity evening of the Sentebale organization, he told the guests: “Great Britain is my home, a place that I love. That will never change. I want to make it clear: we are not leaving anywhere, and certainly we are not leaving anywhere. ” Two days after the performance, he was on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
In a jacket, but under guard
January 21 - after Harry settled all the issues in Britain, he flew to Canada, where for the most part he would be living with Meghan Markle.
Images appeared on the web from Victoria International Airport, where a WestJet airplane took off, on which the Prince flew from Vancouver. Stepping off the ramp, the duke, accompanied by guards, quickly left.
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However, the rather modest outfit in which Harry made the flight was impossible not to notice. He was dressed in casual style: blue jeans and a dark sweater along with a jacket and the most ordinary hat.
The audience, accustomed to seeing the prince in expensive suits, immediately noted that, having lost his gloss and elegance, he became a rather ordinary-looking young man. The Internet was immediately captured by jokes: "Meghan Markle is the only woman in the world who married a prince and turned him into a frog."
Everything is crazy about Megan
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle officially announced their engagement, the UK literally went crazy: the actress's photos did not leave the front pages of the tabloids. Journalists discussed what kind of princess she would be - according to their forecasts, the American woman should have shown independence and defended women's rights, given that Markle is known for feminist views.
The American actress has always wanted to make a difference regarding feminism. In an interview, she told how at age 11 she was so annoyed by a sexist dishwashing liquid advertisement that she wrote a letter to Hillary Clinton. The video was removed from the air, and the slogan was replaced.
However, everything was not so smooth. The royal family has many rules, some of them may seem old-fashioned, but still they are unshakable - and they expected from Megan that she would master the protocol.
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After the engagement for the former Miss Markle, the members of the royal family created the most comfortable conditions so that she could familiarize herself with the rules - numerous assistants promised to help her, among whom was the former secretary of Queen Samantha Cohen.
Megan office workers told the Daily Mail portal that stylists invited to the palace were horrified by the duchess's fashionable preferences. They urged her to adopt the royal style.
The most controversial outfit was a summer dress on a tour of Australia and Oceania in October 2018. The light cotton dress that the duchess wore at one of the events revealed a lot more on the girl than allowed by the protocol, and the neckline on her thigh was so high that she could see her underwear if she wanted to. The public justified the young duchess, expecting her to learn to follow simple rules. However, in 2019, the benevolence of the British - not without the help of the tabloids who analyzed her every act - began to fade away.
The prince is not the same
After the birth of the first-born, Megan became one of the most criticized characters. She was condemned for everything - for too luxurious home repairs, outfits, and public behavior. There were also rumors that she forbade much of Prince Harry - including not allowing him to see friends.
“The friends Harry used to make friends with usually drove him astray, and rumors reached me that Megan was inclined to increase the space between him and his close friends,” Gavin Gray, an expert on royal family affairs, told IBT.
However, the press paid the closest attention to the relations of the Dukes of Sussex with the family of Harry's elder brother Prince William: they saw a serious discord.
February 28, 2018 - even before the wedding - Megan, Harry, William and Kate met at the Royal Fund Forum. The photographs of The Magnificent Four — as they were called in the press — flew around the world.
Two princes, friends of families and working side by side for the benefit of society, created an ideal picture of harmony and prosperity in the Windsor family, which has had enough scandals in the last few decades.
However, the “Magnificent Four” did not live long - after rumors went about a quarrel between Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton, and after that about the cooling in relations between Harry and William, official confirmation began to appear that the families were not too close.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle refused to live with William and Kate at Kensington Palace - and received from the Queen a separate cottage in Windsor. Then they started their Instagram account, and if before that their photos appeared along with pictures of William and Kate on the official page of Kensington Palace, now they uploaded their photos separately.
The separation of families officially ended when it was announced that the families of the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex would conduct business separately, with the office of the former located in Kensington Palace, and the staff of the latter settled in Buckingham: so Harry and Megan refused to participate with Prince William and Kate Middleton in the charity work of the Royal Fund.
By the end of 2019, Prince Harry was left with nothing of what he was accustomed to. In addition to the homeland and royal duties. Now there isn’t that either. However, no one guarantees a new peaceful life with his wife and child - in North America, Megan and Harry are already being pursued by the paparazzi.
