MANDEL: No more California dreaming for the Sussexes
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After their California dreams have crashed and burned, the royal grifters are taking their endless drama back across the pond.
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What in the world are they thinking?
Reports that Prince Harry and Meghan are returning to the UK six years after bolting from their royal duties have caught most of us by surprise: while they’ve used up their goodwill in the United States, there’s even less awaiting them in the realm they abandoned. A recent YouGov poll found only 22% of Britons had a positive opinion of Meghan and 33% for Harry.
A new poll found a third of Brits don’t want them back.
Is Megxit really over, let bygones be bygones, and welcome us back from our long exile with open arms? Are they delusional?
British press sharpening their talons
The predatory British press are already sharpening their talons. Hostile pundits were on the telly hours after the shocking news to toss about their theories: Harry is moving back to stake his claim in the family firm before his ailing old man dies. They’re crawling back in hopes of guaranteeing they can keep their titles when Prince William ascends the throne. They’re planning to set up a rival royal camp to compete and undercut the Prince and Princess of Wales who despise them.
Or maybe the prodigal son truly wants to reconcile with his family and for once, he’s getting his way in the marriage.
This much is known: Their big American plans have sputtered –Meghan’s cooking show was a dud that even Martha Stewart trashed, Spotify dropped them and Netflix renegotiated their lucrative contract. They were hardly the Hollywood A-listers the former TV actress likely promised they’d become.
While the Yanks have an envious affinity for everything royal, even they tired of the entitled couple’s endless whining about how they were so hard done by. But they’re not returning as paupers – Harry’s scorched earth tell-all book Spare may have burned whatever chance he has of reconciling with his big brother, but it made him about $27 million.
But what possible commercial projects will they find in the UK? Will Meghan’s As Ever jam compete against her father-in-law’s Highgrove Estates marmalade?
The Duke, 41, and Duchess, 45, are certainly not returning to royal duties – there’s still no ‘half-in, half-out’ option available – but will be private citizens living in a private residence outside London. Perhaps near his cousins or his mom’s ancestral home of Althorpe, which the family visited this summer. Their children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, are expected to start school on English soil next month.
The paparazzi must be in a frenzy. Fleet Street has reveled in Harry and Meghan’s lack of success and published endless stories about her bullying ways and her husband’s spineless loyalty.
Now they’re willingly walking right back into the hornet’s nest – the one Harry swore he had to flee for the sake of his family’s physical and mental health?
Cashed in on litany of complaints about royal family
Meanwhile, Harry’s countrymen aren’t exactly putting out the crumpets and tea for their return: they’re still angry at how the traitorous couple left in 2020 without consulting his father or brother and then spent the next few years cashing in on their long litany of complaints about the royal family and the monarchy itself. Nothing short of a sincere mea culpa is likely to satisfy.
Already, there’s outrage at how much it will cost to protect the Sussexes. A protection expert told the Daily Mail it could cost taxpayers up to the equivalent of $9.4 million CAD a year. Harry has spent the last few years fighting for the full security he lost when he and Meghan gave up their royal duties, endlessly claiming it was too dangerous to bring his family home without it.
What changed?
There was a visit earlier this summer where King Charles finally got to see his grandchildren and the couple managed not to leak all the details. With his dad battling cancer , perhaps he’s eased the way for them to come back. But even he was supposedly only informed of the bombshell decision on Sunday.
And what of the king-in-waiting? The brothers haven’t spoken in years with William understandably furious with his baby brother on many fronts – Harry bailed and left him and his wife to carry the burden of royal duties – which became especially heavy after Catherine was battling cancer herself, he trashed him in public and accused the firm of being racist , calculating and so cold it drove Meghan to contemplate suicide.
How will Harry ever bridge that chasm?
“I can’t see a world in which I’d be bringing my wife and children back to the UK at this point,” he said in 2025.
A year later, he’s doing just that. Good luck to the Sussexes – they’re going to need it.