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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's all the royals. Conservatives yearn for a hierarchy they think they would be near the top of. It's the same as poor people voting republican: they somehow imagine that their future involves moving in those circles themselves. They are blind to the contempt in which Rs hold them. "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Oh, and there's the racial aspect. When Meghan came onto the scene, they were aghast that a black women could be elevated above them, and rallied around Kate, whose whiteness makes her automatically superior in their eyes. [/quote]

It's important to acknowledge that Meghan's been the subject of a palace-tabloid war for years, because she and Harry basically outshone the Waleses, and that couldn't continue. Racists and conservative hierarchy-obsessives loved, loved, loved this hate campaign, and here we are.

(FWIW, I'm an older white woman, but I have tons of high-placed British relatives, including one in the UK foreign office, and I know a little about how the British royal rota works. The palaces feed their pet rota "journalists" dirt on the Sussexes in exchange for positive coverage, and that's just the start.)

It's hard to overestimate the impact Harry and Meghan had in the first few months of their joint royal work together. And how their work ethic (see: Meghan's Grenfell Towers cookbook and capsule wardrobe for a women's charity) put Kate and William to shame. QEII kept sending Harry and Meghan on important trips, such as to Australia and Africa, while the Waleses' Caribbean tour was a complete disaster (see: Jamaica telling William they were withdrawing from the Commonwealth, and photos of Kate and William touching black children through a wire fence and wearing colonial khakis while riding a jeep as the "natives" bowed). Kate and William haven't done major trips overseas since, and there's a reason.

Which is why William will never, ever let Harry and Meghan return to royal work. As if the Sussexes wanted that, but that's another discussion.[/quote]

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