First of all - ha! The times will have been sitting on this so that Oprah can’t do another amendment to the interview.
it’s unsurprising how she treated them - she seems to have the idea that she was a princess with serfs rather than a high ranking public servant with a staff of public servants who should be respected like any employee. There were enough stories about her behaviour over the years she never sued over.
I think she stole those earrings - the palace would have buried them because of the provenance and how bad it looked. She’s always been about the money.
BP look very bad - but they were indeed caught between their staff and Meghan basically saying they didn’t stand up for her, also with Harry running up and down the halls screaming that she should have whatever she wants. His behaviour is also awful but he was spoiled rotten his entire life. BP made this problem over many years and I think the family stopped the grey suits from dealing with it efficiently - HM should never have let him marry her and they should have released all their research as reasoning why.
the judgement going against ANL will also have rattled the entire press Corps - mostly owned by the same few people so they will want to respond en masse
Harry in my view is the real problem here. Get rid of Smeghan, he'll remain, and continue to be a problem because it's clear he suffers from Second Son Syndrome (much like that other massive bellend Andrew) and has also be pandered to and allowed far too much indulgence that William, who grew up as a future King, was not.
He's clearly got a nasty temper and probably started echoing the old useful racism!!!!! cry at every obstacle in Meghan's way, like a good little subservient echo chamber of a narc's chosen partner inevitably will.
The Queen if people remember, was mired in criticism after Diana's poor taste in Arab fuckbois (fun fact, Dodi's yacht - which hosted many, MANY a actress/model yacht girl before Di, was purchased from the dodgy Khashoggi arms dealing clan) and inability to wear a seatbelt like a grown up resulted in her untimely death. It's clear the Queen took the critique of her alleged 'coldness' and propriety to heart and I think in retrospect overcompensated with Harry and his desire to marry a shitewoke foreign yachter, his heart's apparent desire, as opposed to a 'suitable' girl who knew the royal ropes somewhat, like Diana apparently was back in her day. I think they were trying to move with the times, and be less stuffy and unfortunately, like many good deeds, it's all gone less unrewarded than horribly punished.