Harry and Meghan please stop whinging

Generally speaking, and as an ex serviceman who took the Queen’s shilling, I would say I am a royalist at heart. That’s not to say I’m uncritical of the Royal Household, and haven’t some of them gone out of their way in both recent and more distant times to bring opprobrium on themselves? However this article in Spiked, by associate editor Joanna Williams, about an ITV documentary on The Sussexes, not only made me laugh out loud, but it made me angry, because it brought into sharp focus, just how entitled and spoiled this pair really are and how unashamedly indifferent they are to the growing clamour that they are among the world’s biggest hypocrites. Here Williams sets the tone:

“The take-home message for the viewing plebs was that Harry and Meghan are not okay. Apparently it’s really hard being royal. It’s even harder to be a duchess at the same time as getting to grips with being a new mum, a wife, having a new job and living in a different country. To make matters worse, hardly anyone has asked Meghan if she is okay.”

Then she delivers a wonderful hammer blow:

“Blimey. What are all those servants being paid for if they can’t even get their act together to enquire after Meghan’s state of mind? Us ignorant folk may all blithely assume that the cleaners and gardeners and caterers and nutritionists and nannies and private doctors and midwives and stylists and chauffeurs as well as the private jet and the foreign holidays and the £2.4million house renovation might make being a wife and a mum who has to turn out to smile and wave every now and again just a little bit easier. But it turns out we’d be wrong: poor Megs is merely ‘existing not living’.”

I didn’t have to read much further to start getting angry, once the laughter had abated, and it made me wonder about how TV news and production companies are prepared to skew the truth in either rampant sycophancy, as with ITV, and reporter Tom Bradby, in this case, and the BBC in that of Brexit.

I applaud journalism like this, and similar opinion can be found in The Salisbury Review, which I freely admit is a Conservative publication, however I do think it is under threat, by the tide of Wokeness and extreme political correctness, so evinced by the solipsism of today’s permanently offended and complaining activist community.

I doubt Harry and Meghan will read or take any notice of this article, or others like it, but they would do well to listen; the public have only so much patience for their self indulgence.