Harry and Megan

[PaulP]

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Racism is cited as a key factor. What has me confused is that if it was an important element then why did it take a year or two to turn things around. Meghan was hugely popular in those early days. Did folk not realise Meghan was black. I thought Charles walking Mum down the aisle would have been a giveaway. There may be some racial aspect, but it would exist at a very minor level in the greater scheme of things, and in those few entrenched who weren’t fond of Meg from the start. That’s not to say it may not have been a more important factor with some members of the extended Royal family.

I suspect the truth of the anti Meg and Harry feeling is as simple as the old “Yoko Ono effect”.
Yes, there may have been a racial aspect to that one too for a section of critics, but the main focus was to most people, rightly or wrongly, "Yoko broke up the Band”.

The change in mood is a top down effect. Meghan started popular because Murdoch knows that "build em up and tear em down" is a very successful business model. 

And as for Yoko, you may have noticed that in her and Markle's cases, the men are generally off the hook, and the women are to blame. Despite the fact that both Harry and Lennon are both educated, successful grown men, have a proven track record of making important decisions, and just generally acting like mature adults, and probably had women offering themselves 24/7 - but apparently all that goes out the window when it suits the argument, at which point they become "merely male", and unable to resist the charms of evil, shameless, opportunistic manipulative women. This narrative is crystal clear in both stories. Lennon and Harry are quite capable of deciding for themselves.