The royal family lives in a bubble. They maintain a carefully crafted public image in spite of a few bad apples. So now Harry and Meghan are making noises about stepping out of that bubble. That's a big step.
Someone once observed that a celebrity has three images. There's the one they play on screen, the one that's portrayed by their publicists for their public image, and the one that few see -- their own, closely guarded, real self.
These days with all the muck racking that feeds the desire of the non-famous to bring the famous down a few notches, it's harder for celebs to hide their real selves. Exposure will bring us a closer look at Harry and Meghan.
Kyle Smith paints the picture in Why Harry and Meghan will find life even harder as non-royals:
As if! Within the royal embrace, media coverage is bubble-wrapped. Out there in the cold cruel world of ordinary celebrity, it’s anything goes. No “Royal Rota” agreement applies in Hollywood. It’s every paparazzo out for himself, every time you go out for a coffee, and when you’re on your own property you have to pay for your own security to keep them at bay instead of sending the bill to the taxpayer. The Royals, because of the circumstances of Princess Diana’s death and because of the institutional respect commanded by the Crown, are just about the only celebs west of Vladimir Putin who can enforce any limits whatsoever over their coverage.
Besides, if H & M ever were to break completely free of the Firm (unlikely), a big chunk of their mystique would be gone. They’ll soon find themselves being mocked for pimping out their new Sussex Royal brand. Hoodies, T-shirts, socks, ball caps and pencils — really? They’re going to leverage a thousand years of dignity and tradition for a bunch of cheesy crapola that’s going to wind up at the Dollar Tree? The whole point of being royal is to float above and beyond ordinary existence, to make ordinary mortals fantasize about what it’s like to be you. Once you’re doing interviews with E! or hawking Christmas ornaments on the Home Shopping Network, you’re just two schmucks getting torn apart by the late-night comics.
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Prince Harry will get the respect he shows the crowds.
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1:38 PM 1/12/2020
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