It was meant to be baby Archie’s momentous day but having a certain royal missing from his christening photo tells a sad story.
One year on from Archie’s christening, relations between Harry and Meghan and the Queen remain a hotly debated topic. Last week, in court documents filed as part of Meghan’s privacy lawsuit against theparent company, she claimed she was left “undefended by the institution” while pregnant and that she had been “prohibited from defending herself” against negative false press coverage.
New York Post front page shows Ghislaine Maxwell and Kevin Spacey at Buckingham Palace. Picture: NY PostAnd now we have had another significant if starkly different anniversary: The arrest of Jeffrey Epstein. On July 7 last year the already-convicted sex offender was arrested at a New Jersey airport after landing in his private jet from Paris and charged with new sex-trafficking offences.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during one of their last duties as working members of the royal family in March 2020. Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFPIn August 2019, barely two days after Epstein’s body was found in his New York jail cell, the Queen made the grievous mistake of taking her son to church with her in Scotland in a poorly considered attempt to throw her regal weight behind him in the most public fashion possible.
However, her handling of the Andrew imbroglio could not be further from this. Despite acting decisively, reportedly working in concert with Prince Charles and Prince William to see the Prince step down from official royal duties in the wake of his humiliating BBC interview, since then there has been what looks externally like a spectacular failure of leadership.
Likewise, the palace’s handling of the malcontent Sussexes and their departure from royal life has been far from plain sailing. For months prior to the couple’s quitting, and in the months since then, the palace has been buffeted by various Sussex-related press incidents such as their October TV interview and more recently, the brickbats lobbed at the palace machine as part of the Duchess’s privacy lawsuit.
Similarly, referencing Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie in terms of their having paying jobs seems unnecessarily pointed and arguing that the Queen or the Cabinet office does not have “jurisdiction … over the use of the word ‘royal’ overseas” just seemed plain petulant.
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