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Now that he also has a job in Silicon Valley, Prince Harry has become (truly) American

He was a prince, a soldier and a helicopter pilot. And now the Duke of Sussex has got it his first “real” job. Nor is it the only one. Harry, 37, will be the “Chief impact officer” of a Silicon Valley life coaching startup called BetterUp. And then, we only found out today, he will also be one of the fifteen members of the Commission set up by the Aspen Institute against Disinformation.

Harry is thus increasingly distant from the royal family, and increasingly American. Indeed, Californian. To play its role in BetterUp, the prince will have to move – when requested – between Santa Monica, where he lives with Meghan Markle and Archie, and the San Francisco offices. But BetterUp encourages smart working, as well as meditation. BetterUp takes care of people’s mental health and well-being also through coaching. “I want to help make an impact on people’s lives,” the prince said immediately in an email to Wall Street Journal. And Harry has been meditating regularly once a day since he met Meghan.

And on the site of BetterUp adds: “Call me Harry”, even if his royal title appears in the presentation form: “Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex”. The company, however, refused to let anyone know whether Harry’s job will be salaried or not. A regular salary, moreover, may come in handy for the prince after telling Oprah Winfrey that his father, the Prince of Wales, has “cut him out financially” since the announcement of the Megxit onwards. Of course, Harry and Meghan can count on contracts with Netflix (150 million dollars), on the one with Spotify (similar figure), in addition to the various paid speeches. The Sussexes are also working on their new Foundation, which will not be called Royal Sussex but Archewell, homage to his son and further estrangement from the Windsors. So much so that in the presentation site they put a photo of Harry as a child with mum Diana and not with dad Carlo.

And today, after the revelations to Oprah, the break with the royal family appears even more clear. If the Americans are (almost) all on their side while the British are loyal to His Majesty, it is undeniable not to notice how Harry truly revolutionized his life. And this is true both if we consider him “plagiarized by his wife” and if he appears as “finally really free”.

Megxit’s announcement is dated January 8, 2020, and a year and a half later Harry responds to the address in Montecito, Santa Barbara. Neighbors, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen De Generes, Gwyneth Paltrow and George Lucas. He is an American. He has a new wardrobe suitable for California e an accent which belies his status as a noble, and brings him closer to La La Land. There are those who even swear that they collect their hair in one ponytail. Word of the neighbor and actor Rob Lowe, who would have crossed him at a traffic light. The cap with visor is also inevitable.

We even saw him joking with James Corden on a double-decker bus, one of those he had never climbed in London. But there he was still a senior member of the most important royal family on the planet. Today is a life coaching dash podcaster health-conscious dash. Welcome to California.

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