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All my opinions:
I think the Press pander because they can't quite believe how they were manipulated into believing the Palace PR and the persona that was created for Haz. The good old days when the Cheeky Chappie used to go to the pub with them, and allegedly leak stuff about William and Catherine. The RRs essentially fell for a Long Con and they don't want to think they were naive enough for that. It's an ego thing. So Haz turning out to be a complete tit must somehow mean it's All William's Fault.
Haz will never ever go back to fulfilling their fantasy. His pathological issues with William run too deep. As do Smeg's with Catherine. I think both of them truly believe the Waleses have "stolen" something from them. Something that should rightfully have been theirs. And they won't stop until they either get what they feel they're entitled to or they destroy the "opposition" standing in their way. I do believe they are dangerous, and I think Catherine becoming Princess of Wales has seriously triggered both of them in different ways. I think the announcement coming the day after TLQ's death stunned them and thwarted what I think was going to be a planned PR campaign that Catherine should not use Mummy's title and should be Duchess of Cornwall, like Camilla. That way Catherine remained a Duchess and, to non-Royal watchers anyway, equal in status to Smeg.
And I do believe that even if all the online vitriol aimed at the Wales family, including the children, was ever proved to lead directly back to the Harkle camp, there would be no repercussions. Definitely not for Haz, or even for Smeg. KC3 wouldn't allow it.
The Dan Wootton stuff, and his intention to take legal action, is another story. Things may yet turn out to be interesting.
Your post really struck deeply with me. Probably because you've summed up all the toxicity, dysfunction and real danger so clearly and succinctly.
People very rarely want to accept that they've fallen for lies, hook, line and sinker, and for so many years. It's too painful to think about and very difficult to have to question and rearrange your whole worldview.
This is what the public would have to do with regard to the RF and even the Monarchy.
It grieves me to say that all this dysfunction, toxicity and danger has its roots in the Palace and whoever gives courtiers orders - or,more likely, just allows them to carry on spinning.
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Royal PR spinning has been monumental for at least the last century, more or less since Queen Alexandra - a remarkably intelligent and talented woman - saw the need to distance the RF from the Russian and European imperial-style crowned rulers/tyrants. She set about shaping the British RF into more of an accessible, visible, more relatable, honourable, cosy family that tirelessly does good things for the People.
She had the right idea but as time has gone on, it's been taken to excess where, in recent times the Palace PR meisters have indulged in downright lies and cover-ups. They created a fairytale wedding for Charles and Diana and it was so far from the truth. That big lie has built the situation we see now: stoat's turds were highly polished and gleamed so much that we simply couldn't see how disturbed he was as a child and young man. Being so disturbed, badly behaved and none too bright, he believed the gleaming story that was continuously pumped out about him - to the point where he still believes he is somehow this false persona that was confected for him. Thus he will readily accept paltry awards that praise him to the skies: 'Legend of Aviation'??, the Kennedy award for 'fighting racism in the RF'?? when he KNOWS there is no such problem, and can sit and bask in the 'glory' of some crooner's syrupy, arse-licking paean to him....
He's not wrong in blaming the 'Grey Suits' and in claiming he was trapped - and he still is. It's why, deep down, he believes the Monarchy should have given him so much more - the PR spinners always said he was so brilliant, so dutiful, so special.
Sadly, I believe you're right,
@ChipDex, it's all gone too far to be able to stop him destroying whatever he can in revenge. Too late to change things and repair him. His upbringing has warped him for life. He's made himself a terribly uncomfortable and maybe even back-breaking bed to lie in.
It's too late for his father to remedy anything much now. He's also had his own warping lifetime experience of the Palace's truth-bending PR to contend with, as well as an upbringing that seriously didn't take account of his needs as a child, young man and would-be husband.
It's all tragic - especially as no one in the RF or amidst the Palace PR 'experts' ever stood back and really through about where all their laissez faire and turd polishing would lead to... so here we are: the monumental Markle disaster which continues to assail and disturb us all, and will do so well beyond the foreseeable future.