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When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their decision to step back from the Some old man play bingo real old man listen to AC DC signatures shirt Furthermore, I will do this royal family, The Sun plastered a portmanteau in its sensational headline: MEGXIT. (That’s Meghan, plus Brexit.) Within a few days, the term was everywhere. It was in the global papers and a trending hashtag on Twitter. It was on mugs, T-shirts, and iPad cases sold on Amazon. It was in the dictionary—the Collins English Dictionary named it one of 2020’s words of the year. It even got its own Wikipedia page (complete with its own section on etymology).On a surface level, Megxit was just some wordplay that, thanks to its clever combination of current events, developed cultural, even comical, cache. (Who didn’t laugh at Brad Pitt’s Megxit joke at the BAFTAs?) Yet it contained an innate, misleading implication: that it was Meghan who was solely responsible for their royal departure. “The use of Meghan’s name has been taken in some quarters as identifying the Duchess as the instigator of the withdrawal,” Collins explained. Just this month, in fact, an anonymous source told the Times of London that the Duchess of Sussex had ulterior motives: “She wanted to be the victim because then she could convince Harry that it was an unbearable experience and they had no choice but to move to America,” they claimed.During the couple’s recent tell-all, Oprah With Harry and Meghan, Oprah Winfrey addressed this Megxit narrative  by showing a barrage of headlines and TV interviews that “blamed Meghan for the decision.”This pervasive viewpoint was said to irk Harry. Why? Because, as we know now, he was the one who made the final call.The duke’s unhappiness with royal life, as well as his ultimate choice to retreat from it, first surfaced last year in Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand’s book, Finding Freedom. Then, the duke confirmed it in person last month to James Corden, calling his situation “toxic.”“I did what any husband and what any father would do—I need to get my family out of here,” he told the talk-show host.He then stressed again to Oprah that it was his choice to leave the monarchy, rather than his wife’s. The duchess explained further: “He ultimately called it—he was like, ‘We’ve got to find a way for us,’” Meghan said. Then she thanked her husband: “You made a decision that certainly saved my life. And saved all of us.”So, yes, the adage of “it takes two” seems to be accurate in the case of Meghan and Harry. Why, though, did it get so twisted?

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Twenty-six years apart, the Some old man play bingo real old man listen to AC DC signatures shirt Furthermore, I will do this Duchess of Sussex and Princess Diana sat down with two separate journalists for two separate so-called bombshell interviews. Meghan was in Montecito, California. Princess Diana was in her London living room. Meghan had her husband, Prince Harry, by her side. Diana was completely alone. (In fact, Charles had recently admitted to the world he’d had an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.) Meghan had been besieged by negative press attention and racist social-media trolls. Princess Diana had her private phone conversations published and was dubbed unstable by the press. The time, the locations, and the details were different. Yet, now that the dust has begun to settle after Meghan’s broadcast, the shared elements between their stories are clear: Both contended with mental-health struggles, unsurvivable press attention, and faux, failed fairy tales.A quick explainer, for the uninitiated: In November 1995, Princess Diana participated in an interview with BBC journalist Martin Bashir. It was unsanctioned by Buckingham Palace. No topic was off-limits, including Diana’s bulimia, depression, and failed union with Prince Charles. (“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,” she famously said about his affair with Parker Bowles.) Nearly 40% of the United Kingdom’s population watched the interview—and, as a result, the public’s reception of the monarchy was significantly damaged.Two and a half decades later, her son and his wife undertook their own tell-all, Oprah With Meghan and Harry, after quitting the royal family.You don’t need a synopsis of royal goings-on, do you?  Your feed is already thick as golden syrup with Meghan Markle opinions, yet I have no qualms slipping into my Balmoral wellies and wading in. I think of the royal family as a circus: animals reared in (fairly opulent) captivity who are frequently groomed and paraded as we gawp. For outsiders, for newcomers to the Firm, I’m sure the environment is stifling, because all newbies can see is the bars of the cage. Some captives do flourish. Kate acclimatized to her palace-adjacent life. Meghan Markle did not. The decision for her and Harry to go public with Oprah to explain the rationale of their detachment from the royal family is clearly an attempt to cauterize the mounting negative press streaming on our newsfeeds, and at this point emanating from the palace itself. Despite an entire generation of us waking up—rethinking gender, critiquing pink—we can’t quite move away from an ever-present princess narrative, a dominant marker of success for women, a happily ever after. We can’t understand how someone like Meghan, who’s got the royal seal of approval, is still in any way dissatisfied. How dare the princess complain about the pea? Look at all she has. Huge swathes of the public seem livid Markle can’t grin and bear it.Before I wrote this piece, I scanned Twitter, enjoying the witty asides, sharing the witty asides, adding my own witty asides. But that joyous tickle quickly gave way to anger for the British press as I scanned the headlines. The British media at its worst, especially the tabloids, often feels like a race to the bottom, a scrabble for attention-grabbing headlines and rumors Rumpelstiltskin’ed into tenuous story threads. We can all objectively see this, we can all disagree with it, but most of us have difficulty reconciling our own participation in the hunger for royal stories, whether dramatically rendered in The Crown, or inhaled in gossip columns. We have trouble recognizing our own culpability in sleazy media actions because we’re not sleazy—we didn’t personally chase Britney, we are not the ones upskirting women or photographing them at lunch, we weren’t the paparazzi in the tunnel when Diana died. But if there were no appetite or market for these tales and pictures and rumors, the press wouldn’t push them. The press caters to our tastes, hunting women so we can devour the carcasses. It really is that simple. The initial anger I felt finally settled as a palpable sadness. It was the constant berating of a biracial woman in the public eye—and the revelation that her in-law family was panicked by the pigmentation of their next heir—that really sank my heart. This is the public racism I’ve become accustomed to—covert and veiled, but very clearly there, and often excused as fair critique. This “fair” critique is passable on Twitter and it’s passable in print as long as you don’t mention the color of the woman you’re tearing to shreds, as long as you don’t actually say the n-word. You can hammer her into submission, her only means of power being to escape, just as long as you don’t comment on her specific ancestry.

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