I don’t care about Harry’s bombshell book and I didn’t want to watch the bombshell ITV interview in which he promoted it, but once news about it started landing in newspapers and websites all over
Greg Bruce
That is, from people criticising someone in public for criticising someone in public.
Leaving aside the hypocrisy of that position, it also represents an appalling lack of empathy. Harry fled his country out of fear, he’s estranged from his family, his brother once threw him on the ground, breaking his presumably very expensive necklace, and his mother’s horrific death was one of the epochal events of the 20th century.
“Ok,” you might say. “Life is suffering.” But where Harry’s suffering is definitively different to the rest of ours is that both he and his wife have both been repeatedly maligned, slandered and attacked in the press, online and probably many other places besides. If you’ve had this happen to you even once, you’ll know it doesn’t feel nice, and Harry and Meghan have had it fairly constantly for quite a long time now.
No quantity of Californian celebrity parties could make up for being openly and viciously hated by millions of human beings, and Jeremy Clarkson. All you can do is defend yourself but what do you do once that fails? All I know is I won’t be watching to find out.