(01-12-2023, 11:34 PM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:People keep banging on about this being about money, I don't get that from what they have said to date. As for them picking up on the racisms stuff, again I don't get that from what I have heard or read. Harry's main beef is about being sold out by family.
That's the irony of the whole thing.
Harry didn't want to be out of the family.
He wanted to be more included, albeit with the ability to pursue personal favourite projects.
He wanted the same deal as his brother and his brother's wife.
He wanted his wife to be treated with respect, same as Kate.
All fair requests.
It's the hierarchial nature of the monarchy though that the 'heir' will always come before the 'spare'.
Andrew would have felt it all his life with Charles as his brother.
One of the differences is that Andrew had Phillip as a father. A man totally invested in the monarchy and it's traditions. He would have told Andrew that was his place and to suck it up.
In contrast Harry's mother was Diana, someone who more than any represents the problems of being involved in that system. Having seen what happened to his mother Harry would have been torn between 'duty' and concern for his family.
It's not surprising he rebelled.
But he remains torn.
He talks about doing work for his father if the issues can be resolved.
The issue isn't so much that he wants that separation, as that for him the break can't be clean....and he has to take a few parting shots that make reconciliation very difficult.