William and Kate Middleton to become more popular copy the “tricks” of Harry and Meghan

L’bomb interview with which the prince Harry e Meghan Markle they tore the royal family apart – accusing them of racism – of course William and Kate Middleton didn’t like it at all. So much so that the eldest son of Carlo e Diana took advantage of the first official engagement with his wife to reply live to Sussex: “We are absolutely not a racist family “. But in the meantime the accusation has cast a shadow over the British Crown that will be difficult to dispel. And the Cambridge have begun to work to ensure that their image is not overwhelmed. The future of the British royal family, after all, is theirs. So they certainly cannot afford the luxury of a decline in popularity. And to avoid it they have shown that they know how to use the same media strategies as the “rivals” Harry and Meghan.

For example, on March 14, on the day of Mother’s Day which in Great Britain falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent, William and Kate shared on the Kensington Palace Instagram profile the postcards than the little ones George, 7 years, Charlotte, 5 e Louis, 2, have dedicated to lady Diana. The Cambridge have specified that every year, on Mother’s Day, the little ones pay homage the grandmother they never knew. Yet to some royal observers William and Kate’s move seemed like a replica of the Sussexes who repeatedly brought up the late princess in the special with Oprah Winfrey. Not just in words. Meghan, to say, sported a bracelet that belonged to Diana. «I think William meant: I’m Diana’s son tooHe said to The Telegraph the journalist Penny Junor, biographer of both brothers.

Harry explained that he fled London for fear that his wife Meghan, “persecuted by the British tabloids”, would end up like her mother, who died in a car accident in Paris in 1997 while being chased by paparazzi. But William does not want the Sussexes to take over the figure and the spiritual legacy of mother Diana, of which he has always rejected the reputation of “rebel”. For him, Lady D, on the contrary, is the symbol of public service. Why, despite her inner torments, she represented the queen for sixteen years and the United Kingdom.

What William above all does not want, according to the analysis of The Telegraph , is that the Sussex use Lady D’s memory as a weapon in their war against Buckingham Palace. Harry seems to have understood this. And counterattacks. A few hours after the publication of the postcards of the little Cambridge in honor of grandmother Diana, he made it known, through his spokesperson, that on Mother’s Day he sent flowers to his mother’s grave in Althorp. «The brothers are fighting for their mother’s spiritual inheritance», Deduces Camille Tominey, the royal expert who signs the article on The Telegraph.

Even the appearance of Kate Middleton, incognito, at the vigil in homage to Sarah Everard, the 33-year-old kidnapped and killed while returning home on the evening of March 3, has been interpreted by some royal observers as a tactic to improve her image. . Little inclined to break protocol, the Duchess of Cambridge, attending one vigil prohibited by London police, brought to mind Meghan Markle’s secret visits, in 2018, to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire from London. At the time, British tabloids compared the solidarity and spontaneity of the Duchess of Sussex to those shown by Princess Diana when she left Kensington Palace in the middle of the night to shelter the homeless. With her latest move, Middleton also now seems to want to pick up Lady D.William and Kate are aware of the attraction exerted to the people by the dukes of Sussex»Concludes Camille Tominey in her analysis of the newspaper The Telegraph. «E they are trying to emulate them».