Prince William, Princess Kate, Prince Harry, and Meghan once worked as a team, but a “cue” of an awkward public moment caused chaos in the now strained relationship.
Once upon a time, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex appeared to be a dream team, representing a younger, more modern vision of the Royal Family.
Then it all came crashing down, in a now widely forgotten moment that spelt the beginning of the end for the then-affectionately nicknamed The Fab Four. In February 2018, long before Prince Harry and Meghan upped sticks to Montecito, the two royal couples made their first official appearance together at the first Royal Foundation forum summit.
This ought to have set the course for a thrilling journey together. William and Kate were expecting Prince Louis, their third child, while Harry and Meghan were already making plans for their May wedding.
Unfortunately, things turned out so badly that it was decided that the quartet would never again appear on stage together again despite other major group royal engagements, like Trooping the Colour. It served as a harbinger of the future.
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It was undoubtedly a very different time for the House of Windsor. Back then, before the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the subsequent coronation of King Charles, William and Kate were still known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Meghan, now 43, was still establishing herself as a newly appointed member of “The Firm,” with royal admirers enthralled by the Hollywood glitz that the former actress brought to life. Unfortunately, Meghan’s star power appeared to backfire during this ominous summit, which presumably didn’t go well with the upcoming Queen Kate.
Meghan, a mother-of-two, passionately spoke about movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp, which encourage women to “use their voices,” at the central London-based summit, which was organized around the idea of “making a difference together.”
She continued, “I hear a lot of people talking about girls’ and women’s empowerment, and you’ll hear people saying that they support women’s voices.”
I completely disagree with that because people need to be urged to listen and women don’t need to be able to use their voices. There is no better time to continue highlighting women’s sense of empowerment and the support they have right now, with the proliferation of campaigns like #MeToo and #TimesUp.
Tina Brown, a writer, wrote an analysis of the Windsor feud in her 2022 book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil.
This now-famous summit, which provided a compelling look into the dynamics between these four very different people, caught the former Vanity Fair editor’s attention before writing the 2007 bestseller The Diana Chronicles.
Ms. Brown noted that Kate, 43, spoke fluently on the then-hot topic of women’s empowerment, which was “surprisingly less articulate” than Meghan, who was able to speak fluently.
With blithe proprietorship, the astute author used a topic that was not even on the foundation’s agenda: women’s empowerment, which reached its fervid height with the rise of the #MeToo movement.
Women don’t need to have a voice, they just need to find one. They are heard. Meghan remarked as she spoke as Harry watched with admiration and his brother and Kate watched with expressionless awe as they both pleaded for them to feel empowered to use it. She was noticeably less articulate and brief when it was Kate’s turn to speak.
Few knew that it was her younger brother, James, who had been the main focus of the foundation’s mental health campaign after years of providing emotional support to him as he struggled with clinical depression, who had been the main influencer of the “awesome dynamic” she continued, “as few knew that it was she,” reflecting on the “awkward dynamic.”
It was developed with the assistance of Palace advisers, policy experts, and mental health professionals. Meghan was now promoting a fashionable cause that was endorsed by Hollywood and sure to garner media attention. It was a strange dynamic. Later, it was decided that the Fab Four would not play as a band together again onstage.
Meghan’s appointment as the fourth patron of the Royal Foundation was the subject of a formal announcement at the ceremony, which William said was “delighted” to have her aboard.
However, there were already some hints of growing tensions as the group joked about “healthy disagreements,” which Harry said “come thick and fast.” William sneered, “Is it resolved?” “We don’t know!”
Harry continued, “I think it’s really good that we have four different personalities and we all have that same passion to make a difference.”
We disagree on many things, but they work really well together. Of course, having a family does have its challenges. The fact that everyone is laughing demonstrates, in my opinion, how well versed they are in it. However, our lives will remain akin to a chain.
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