The Harry/William allegations in #Spare are part of a serious crisis for the British monarchy. 1/ It means Charles III will not define the institution's future: the way the two sons are reconciled will, and it's not looking great...
2/ Why do I care? Because our unique parliamentary sovereignty system relies on a stable and publicly apolitical monarchy; but the political and social content of "Harry/Meghan vs the Firm is overt...
3/ Every time the Palace tries to placate the furore by stonewalling Harry, the right-wing media pile in and attack him, appearing to confirm his basic premise that the two institutions are in cahoots on a reactionary/racist agenda...
4/ If Harry/Meghan lose the titles and are frozen out completely, this ends up much worse than Edward VIII crisis: Edward was a Nazi sympathiser shunted quietly to the Caribbean, with the plebs having no clue as to his treachery... for many young people H&M are role models...
5/ It's not helped by having a destabilised Tory government: three PMs in six months - when Downing Street should be on the front foot demanding clear norms of behaviour and discourse from the Royals...
6/ Someone in public life has to design and execute a reconciliation of Harry/Meghan to the institution they are still part of. The initiative rests with Buckingham Palace or Downing St. Whipping up a Twitter mob against H&M, whoever's doing it, is a bad idea.
7/ However cringe the Netflix series was, it told a coherent story, with principal characters most young adults could relate to, and issues they care about. H&M mastered the art of selling the 21stC monarchy, only to be kicked out of it.
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