The feud in the royal family after Elizabeth II, who would have turned 97 today

Today the queen Elizabeth IIborn on April 21, 1926, he would have been 97 years old. And maybe if she were still alive there fracture between prince Harry and the rest of the royal family would not have reached the current depth. The sovereign died on 8 September 2022. Since then the attacks of Harry and his wife Meghan Markle to the august relatives have multiplied and have become increasingly violent. In December 2022 the Netflix series Harry&Meghan, in which the Sussexes hurled accusations of racism, subterfuge and harassment against the Crown. Then in January 2023 the prince’s book-bomb arrived, Shoot, a concentration of poisons that almost exclusively spared the queen. In those pages there is something for everyone, especially for Williamaccused of violence and even teased for his baldness.

And to think that the reconciliation between Harry and the royal family “it was one of the dearest wishes” of the queen. He told it to People the historian Robert Hardmanexplaining that the sovereign until the last hoped that the rift between Harry, his brother William and his father Carlo was repaired: “The Queen adored Harry to the end, just as he always adored her”explained the author of Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth. «StHis Majesty wished with all his heart that peace would return to the family». The Queen, unfortunately, passed away without seeing any trace of the realization of her dream. Indeed, with her death the tension between the Duke of Sussex and her august relatives has even worsened. It seems that Harry had a furious fight with his father Carlo on 8 September, when the sovereign expired. Why the new king has forbidden to bring his wife Meghan Markle to Balmoralat the bedside of the queen, deeming the presence of the former actress “inappropriate”.

Today, after the Netflix documentary and after Shoot, the rift between the Sussexes and the royal family has reached a fever pitch. So much so that Harry, according to many royal observers, when he presents himself (without his wife) at the coronation of Charles III, “will receive one cold welcome»: «No one is going to talk to him». Not only that: the constant complaints against the royal family have proved to be an unexpected boomerang for the Sussexes. Today their popularity is peaking even in the States which even at the beginning had welcomed them with sympathy. Things would probably be different if they had taken inspiration from the motto that the queen has followed throughout her life: «Never complain, never explain» («Never complain, never give explanations»).

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