But if you compare the Marmite jar today with one that was on the shelves 50 years ago, you’ll see that it’s very different. That good old Marmite spread, love it or hate it, has a red, yellow, and green label familiar to everybody. The queen’s approach to the monarchy is what one of her former private secretaries, Robin Janvrin, wonderfully described as the Marmite theory of monarchy which is all about evolutionary change. What the queen’s speedy handling of Harry and Meghan’s exit says about the monarch: But I guess what really surprised me was Harry’s willingness to leave the royal family, and to leave England for all practical purposes. and she grew up in L.A.-they might spend two months in California a year, the way that the queen spends a few months in the winter in Sandringham, and Charles does in Scotland. I remember thinking that-because Meghan’s mother was in L.A. ![]() That alone, I think, was an indication of how much she wanted them to have a meaningful role, those Commonwealth titles. She gave him three roles in the Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth is very near and dear to her heart-and one of the most important parts of her legacy. ![]() I thought the biggest thing the queen did was-she saw very wisely that Harry is a huge favorite around the world in places like the West Indies, in Africa, in India, and all the former Commonwealth countries that are former colonies. The way they incorporated an African American bishop giving the homily at the wedding and had the gospel choir-they had a lot of elements that were very symbolic of the blending of these two very different cultures and that was the most visible evidence of it. I was in Windsor in May of 2018 … and in talking to people close to the royal family they really bent over backward to accept Meghan. Sally Bedell Smith: What was so surprising to me was the level of unhappiness, and that they decided to leave after less than two years of being married. Ahead, Smith puts this controversial monarchial shift into fascinating historical context, looks back on Meghan’s troubled fast-tracking into the royal family, and wonders how the queen’s grandson will fare now that he’s chucked the Palace’s long-laid plans for him out the window. We could see back at the end of their African tour, and in that ITV documentary last fall, that they were both very unhappy.”īut there were also details about the decision that surprised-and even concerned-the royal historian. And in Meghan in particular-her increasing outspokenness and effort to devise her own role. “If we look back on it now, we can see the progression of it in the splitting of William and Harry’s households, the splitting of the foundation. “I had been hearing the tom-toms for awhile-as early as the autumn of 2018,” Bedell told Vanity Fair Thursday by phone, speaking over a cup of tea. So, on January 8, when Smith read Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s announcement that they would be stepping away from the royal family as senior members-released after months’ of internal discussions but before the couple had finalized a plan with the crown-Smith was not entirely shocked. ![]() ![]() Biographer and former Vanity Fair contributing editor Sally Bedell Smith has been studying the British royal family for over 20 years now-speaking to members of the family’s innermost circles, pouring over its archives, and tracking the monarchy’s evolution-while writing her best-selling biographies on Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Charles.
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