Politic?: The Loyal Royals, Savaging the Windsors

"While we were in Canada at someone else's house I then got told on short notice that security was going to be removed."
"Suddenly it dawned on me 'hang on a second, the borders could be closed, we're going to have our security removed and who knows how long lockdown is going to be?"
"The world knows where we are, it's not safe, it's not secure'."
Prince Harry, the loyal Royal

"As the Duke and Duchess are currently recognized as Internationally Protected Persons, Canada has an obligation to provide security assistance on an as-needed basis."
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, Ottawa

The key here is the phrase 'Internationally Protected Person'. When Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle stepped away from royal duties separating themselves from the Windsors as British Royalty claiming they wished to set out in the world on their own recognizance as ordinary citizens, earning their own living, they divorced themselves from the public purse, in essence. Security is paid for by the British taxpayer for the Royals in the United Kingdom. When they are on royal duty travelling abroad, the country in which they temporarily find themselves is responsible for their security and the costs associated thereof.

They themselves through their personal decision making to separate themselves and their future from formal connection to the Royal Family put into motion a transition reflecting their break from the Firm and there was no longer an obligation for the British public through its taxes to provide security. The way Prince Harry tells it, the Royals revoked that privilege out of spite. Simply because he and his wife insisted on their right to become "financially independent"; in other words to engage in unroyal-like behaviour to net an income as celebrities.

It was their choice to relinquish royal duties and in so doing they were informed that since their intention was to "step back as senior members of the Royal Family", Buckingham Palace informed them they "will no longer receive public funds for Royal duties", and "can no longer formally represent The Queen." By "Spring of 2020", their status as Internationally Protected Persons lapsed due to their very own decision-making.

The Canadian taxpayer laid out $56,384 for two months of RCMP security detail for the two dissenters while they still qualified as IPPs. 73 percent of Canadians found no pleasure in paying for their security tab. Then they no longer were obligated to when the final formal link was sundered and the pair moved to the United States, where Meghan Markle planned to resume her acting career and her Hollywood contacts for a planned series of lucrative contracts that would give her saleable celebrity status along with her Royal husband.

However, Harry's wife was not satisfied with the level of attention she was attracting, hungry for more, seeking a high-profile interview by a popular host, vowing to bare all the grievances she bore against the Windsors. With, evidently, the full compliance of her husband, never known in the past for the brilliance of his own decision-making and comportment. During a highly publicized and avidly anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey the vitriol spilled forth. How neglected and offended poor Meghan Markle was at the lack of sensitivity to her needs and emotions within the bosom of the Royal family.

Excepting the Queen -- which testifies even to MM's limited understanding of just how far she could push credulity -- everyone else in the Royal family was faulted, from her father-in-law to her brother-in-law and his wife and other members of the Royals, including royal advisers, the British press, for ignoring her needs and failing to offer the least bit of help to someone out of her depth in royal protocol and the fine points of noblesse oblige. The Royals, in effect, neglected their responsibility to welcome Meghan as warmly and admiringly and gratefully as they should have, in her opinion.

Moreover, there were hurtful tones of racism, concerns over the possibility that any child she would bear might be too colourful for royal taste. Everyone was faulted, no one did anything to be lauded, except for Megan Markle herself, the very pinnacle of thoughtful kindness and helpfulness. She was so stricken by her feelings of alienation she wanted to die: "I just didn't want to be alive anymore". She was anguished by feelings of rejection by the others when she had gone out of her way to do everything correctly.

Her husband nodding feelingly by her side. He is sufficiently 'woke' to completely empathize with his wife, the mother of his child, pregnant with their second child whose skin pigment is completely irrelevant, and whose loyalty has undergone a complete turnaround in rejection of his entire family and fulsome embrace of his new little family. He has, in essence, agreed that his Royal family is racist and mean-spirited to those not born within the blessed circle of exceptionality as royals.

It is none other than Meghan Markle's estranged father who comes to the rescue of the British Royals, scoffing at his daughter's assertions, offering his own considered opinion that racism does not exist in the thoughts and sentiments of the Royal Family. On the other hand, California, where his daughter and her husband have chosen to settle in, make a fortune as celebrities and raise their children, is undeniably racist in culture and through tradition.

When questions became a trifle awkward, Prince Harry responds "I'm not comfortable with sharing that". Even as his wife puts on her full thespian display of comfort in sharing everything. They are ensconced now in another luxurious mansion, their bank account is continuing to swell, they attract the attention of a fascinated world much of which is uncertain how quite to view this charming pair; the wife whose emotional need for attention and admiration is never quite satisfied but who screams about privacy invaded when it suits her, drawing ever more attention -- yet never enough.

Another Annus Horribilis for the 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, a paragon of discretion and servitude.