Does anyone else think this all could end up being another “Mayerling” ???????
It is all so very bad, deranged, sad and worrying in every way.
Harry has screwed himself and what will come when he finally (if ever) realises what he’s done (and let her do)?
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I have thought for a long time that this is a quite likely scenario.....
TL/DR - IMHO they're far too full of themselves to deprive the world of their brilliant selves!
Though a tragic scenario might too easily unfold spontaneously, accidentally, if they got into a violent fight; or if his and/or her control, power, status were to be taken from him and/or her by a much higher power. They are both prone to spontaneous physical aggression according to various accounts.
It's a gruesome question to ponder, but intriguing.
Looking at their characters and circumstances:
Both stoats are cram-packed full of themselves.
An Arecibo type telescope is needed to measure the vast extent of their joint and individual entitlement.
Both stoats have unstable personalities which are offset to a beneficial extent by the above characteristics and their joint and individual congenital lack of insight.
That is, there's more chance of Hazno Travalysting to the Moon than them gaining any life-changing/threatening insight into their own monumentally devastating FUBARs.
They're equally psychologically protected by their unconscious joint and individual abilities to blame everyone and everything else for those FUBARs.
They both react aggressively, physically and or mentally to any threats to their joint and individual equilibriums.
Neither of them possess effective analytical skills but do have mediocre IQs. That is, they don't do much productive creative thinking/planning/feedback evaluation/re-thinking.
Their go-to modus operandi is a) spontaneous reactivity and b) instant self-gratification. Mrs stoat is capable of longer term scheming but as it's based exclusively on the fulfilment of her own (ill-thought out, amoral) wants and needs (as informed by long years of intensive immersion in Hollywood/Disney fantasies), lack of honest accurate insight and feedback evaluation, the results she achieves don't measure up to her fantasies.
They were each born into privilege. Haz's lot involved uncountable, extreme wealth. Both had over-indulgent parents who treated them as Very Special.
They now live in high privilege. They have a very hidden but real safety net in his family. They do and spend as they please.
Many of the mundane issues that give most people sleepless nights (household bills, repairs, transport, childcare, domestic tasks, rubbish healthcare, crappy schooling for their children etc etc).
They don't take on very much personal responsibility - even though they've weaselled their ways into roles that demand responsibility, they just ignore that part!
No one is keeping them apart. They are not transgressing any conventions or mores in terms of their relationship. They support and affirm each other (even though it doesn't look very pleasant to us, it suits them - otherwise they'd be divorced by now).
So, when I look at all that they do have going for them, all the psychological and practical protections they have, it doesn't look to me like they could succumb to a MAYERLING scenario.
In MAYERLING, Rudolf and Mary didn't seem to fight back against the conventions of their era (whereas the stoats fight everything that even slightly upsets them!)
Rudolf and Mary decided that there was only one honourable way to deal with their situation.
The stoats are not 'blighted' by honour, nor any sense of having to do the 'right thing'.
They always fight back. That aggression, coupled with their high self-esteem, is protective.
(I don't think I've ever heard of a sui cide note that said anything like 'I'm far too wonderful, brillant and special for all you cretins, so I'm offing myself!)
The tragic things I could see might happen is them getting into a stupid spontaneous physical fight and it going too far.
Or if the RF got involved with, for example, flatpack custody. I could see her going over the top there - primarily because the RF has immeasurably more power and control globally and personally than she has, loss of control (over her little Royal tickets) could tip her over the edge.