When the Queen delivered her historic address last week she showed the grave miscalculation LA-based Meghan and Harry have made. royals
In the age of coronavirus, we all spend a lot of time reading, thinking and talking about numbers. The number of new infections. The number of deaths. The rough number of days until this horrible, brave new world ends.That’s how many Brits tuned in LIVE to watch the Queen give only the fourth televised address of her nearly 68-year reign from Windsor Castle as she addressed the current pandemic.
It is a striking, powerful image: A woman who commands an army and heads up a religion alone with one of her 2.4 billion subjects, united by a common cause. On the charity’s potential agenda are things such as volunteering services, “education and training materials” delivered films, podcasts and books, along with the possibility of a “website featuring information in the field of nutrition, general health and mental health”.
Meghan and Harry during one of their final appearances as working members of the royal family. Picture: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFPThey were the magnetic duo whose love for one another was positively infectious. As they stepped out at event after event, hands clasped tightly, beaming at one another, the public fell all over again for the very idea of a hereditary monarchy.
The couple spoke candidly about royal life during their tour of South Africa. Picture: Michele Spatari / AFP)They took a six-week sabbatical in Canada over Christmas and then came the shock announcement in early January, via Instagram, that they wanted to renegotiate their working role in the royal family and there was already a spiffy new website ready to go.
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