Possibly a bit creepy, but I’d love to have been inside Prince Harry’s head as he wrangled two children and his thoughts on the flight from London to Montecito after the Platinum Jubilee knees up.
Family reunion done, what was the girl dad (his words – I know) formerly known as working prince thinking? Was he rapt with his walk-on role as Invisible Man No. 1 – the one he so visibly sought – or was he thinking “Bugger, maybe I’ve stuffed this up”?
The royal inner sanctum watching the flyover as part of the Jubilee celebrations – without Harry and Meghan.Credit:Getty Images
The jubilee shebang raised home truths. The Queen will win a comedy BAFTA for her killer “for later” line in the Paddington Bear video. Louis Cambridge is who you want on your charades team. Rod Stewart should only sing his own back catalogue. And Harry and Meghan truly are persona non grata.
The Sussexes were once the coolest couple and hottest ticket. That prince and the showgirl romance. Their glamour and energy. The cachet of the Queen anointing them Commonwealth ambassadors. They made Kate and William look like mum and dad earnestly handing out scroggin on a Sunday hike.
But the gathering of the clan for its matriarch’s 70 years on the throne proved not just that the monarchy is stronger than its parts and only one member is truly irreplaceable, line of succession be damned, but that Harry and Meghan have lost all currency.
Gone: reputation, relevance, responsibility. Two years after they struck out for the shiny gold of California, the Sussexes’ status as indiscreet private citizens lumped them in London with relegations and rejections.
Making their own official appearance at the Jubilee’s thanksgiving service at St Paul’s Cathedral, Prince Harry and Meghan are now very much second-row royals.Credit:Getty
No carriages for them. They were stuck in a room with cobwebbed rellies and kids at Trooping the Colour. The Cambridges were a no show for their daughter Lilibet’s first birthday party. And the Queen is said to have refused an official photograph with her namesake great-granddaughter lest it be used for commercial gain: “Not a chance.”
Still, the Sussexes carried off with heads high the hypocrisy of celebrating with the family they decried to Oprah as racist, cold and anachronistic. In full-blown Dior and with a Mona Lisa resting face, Meghan duchessed beautifully at the couple’s only public appearance at a thanksgiving church service.
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