The novelty has gone, the bloom is off the Sussex rose, all goodwill has been squandered. Perhaps this is not the beginning of the end for them, but it is the end of the beginning. Harry and Meghan have shown us their victimhood and vacuity, now their shell is empty. Rehearsals, writing, performing, touring - the treadmill never stops, no matter what field of celebrity you happen to be harvesting.Ī sainted mother, a scrap of monarchy, a podcast, a charity, a hen coop and a predilection to point out the faults of others? It is not enough to sustain a career. At 33, Taylor has released 13 blockbuster albums, written dozens of hits and is on her sixth global tour, which finds her onstage every night for three hours. Look at Taylor Swift, who turned down the opportunity to appear on Meghan's podcast (she's not stupid). This all takes dedication, nerve and a lot of hard, hard work. You've got to produce content, revenue streams, new ideas and fresh product to entertain the fickle public and recapture their imagination, over and over again. Everyone in Hollywood knows that if it is hard enough becoming rich and famous, the real test is staying rich and famous maintaining your position at the top of the greasy pole. What is obvious is that the thin gruel of the Sussexes' assumed victimhood is running out and they have nothing in the tank to replace it with. Meanwhile, surely the high-speed Manhattan car chase that never was will go down in history as a turning point in how the world perceived the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.Īll of America could suddenly see the chasm between reality and fantasy that informs so much of what they do and say millions witnessed the martyr warp-factor that colours every HarryThought in the HarryMind in Harryland. Then United Talent Agency boss Jeremy Zimmer described the Duchess as a person of 'not necessarily any kind of talent' to perhaps explain why the Spotify deal went south so quickly. Spotify's Bill Simmons called the couple 'grifters' after their Archewell company delivered only 12 lacklustre podcast episodes following their £18 million deal. Testament from various disgruntled executives tells its own story. Outside the velvety embrace of their Montecito mansion, resentment is on the rise. (His brother pushed him on to a dog bowl! Boo-hoo.)Īnd let's be honest, no one except themselves cares about their latest dud humanitarian award to be lovingly placed upon the Shelf Of Self in their in-house shrine. Interest is running dry in their bitter river of complaint about the Royal Family. Harry and Meghan's endless, irony-free lectures on topics such as climate change, female oppression and unconscious bias are increasingly falling on deaf ears. Meghan Markle's enthusiastic adoption of her husband's status while mocking the family that bequeathed it upon him continues to antagonise many For there are unmistakeable signs that three years after they fled the tyranny of privilege and tiaras for a new life in North America, the wheels are coming off the Sussexes' haranguing wagon. He should remember impartiality is a two-way street, not a fast lane to the moral high ground.īut the big issue is that if things carry on as they are, it isn't going to be Charles and Co fighting for survival come November, it will be the Sussexes themselves. No arguments there, although readers will scrutinise in vain for a single critical word about the Sussexes amid the thousands Scobie has written about them, or said on TV. Yet again his reward for making the monarchy more relatable was to be punished for his global magnetism because his father feared being eclipsed by the popularity of his charismatic and brilliant younger son.' And so on, in the usual foamy lather of fanboy obsequiousness.Īll this makes it even more amusing that Scobie has taken it upon himself to call for more 'thorough, spin-free, well-rounded insight and reporting' on the Royal Family and that the King in particular should not be 'immune from scrutiny'. 'Harry felt it was another insult, death by a thousand feathers. One can imagine what Omid is going to have to say about that - cue violins. Omid Scobie (pictured in London in June this year) rose to prominence after writing Founding Freedom, a laudatory biography about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
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